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FAITH OTTKES, 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER, 



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Copyright, 1882, 
By Mrs. Edward Mix. 



THE OLD VERSION. 

" Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evi- 
dence of things not seen." — Heb. xi. 1. 

THE NEW VERSION. 

" Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the prov- 
ing of things not seen/' 

" O Lord, my God, I cried unto Thee and thou hast healed 
me." — Psalms xxx. 2. 

" And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness." — 
Deut. vii. 15. 

" And behold there was a certain man before Him which 
had the dropsy, and He took him and healed him and let him 
go." — Luke xiv. 2-4. 

" Bless the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits, 
who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy dis- 
eases." — Psalms ciii. 2, 3. 

" And behold there came a Leper and worshipped Him, say- 
ing, Lord if Thou wilt Thou canst make me clean, and Jesus 
put forth his hand and touched him, saying, I will, be thou 
clean, and immediately his leprosy was cleansed." — Mat. viii. 
2, 3. 

" And behold there was a man which had his hand withered, 
then said He to the man, stretch forth thine hand, and he 
stretched it forth, and it was restored whole like unto the 
other."— Mat. xii. 10-13. 

" I will put none of these diseases upon thee, for I am the 
Lord that healeth thee." — Exodus xv. 26. 

" I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears, behold I 
will heal thee." — 2 Kings xx. 5. 



PEEFAOE. 



Does God answer prayer ? Every true-hearted 
Christian would answer yes. What should be the 
nature and character of prayer ? It should be of- 
fered in faith, and with a wise reference to the 
glory of God, and it is very necessary that the heart 
should be all right in the sight of God, then we can 
come boldly to the throne of grace and obtain 
mercy and grace to help in every time of need, 
and we can come with a full assurance of faith, for 
we read in God's Word, " Therefore, I say unto 
you what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, be- 
lieve that ye receive them, and ye shall have 
them," and we read, " The eyes of the Lord are 
over the righteous, and his ears are open unto 
their prayers." But many who believe it is right 
to come to God with spiritual sickness question 
whether it is right to come in like manner with 
physical disease. All that have arrived at the age 
of maturity, and acknowledge God's Word to be 
true, believe that when Christ was here on the 
earth and went about doing good, he healed 



all manner of diseases, and raised the dead, and 
the same Jesus says, " All power is given to me 
in Heaven and in earth." But many will ask the 
question, how is it done ? Such was the inquiry 
in the time of the Apostles. Turn to the third 
chapter of Acts, and read to the 17th verse, 
when the people looked with wonder and astonish- 
ment upon the one which had been a cripple from 
his birth, and Peter said unto him, " Silver and 
gold have I none, but such as I have give I thee, 
in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up 
and walk, and immediately his ankle bones re- 
ceived strength." Did the man say, don't say 
anything about this to any one, Peter, for fear it 
won't last, then people would ridicule me ? No; 
that was not his feeling at all, but he went right 
into the temple with them, walking and leaping, 
and praising God, and when the people marveled 
at this, Peter says, " It 's through no power or holi- 
ness in us that has made this man whole," but he 
says, " The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of 
Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his 
Son Jesus, whom ye delivered up and denied 
him in the presence of Pilate when he was de- 
termined to let him go; his name through faith in 



His name hath made this man strong, whom ye see 
and know, the faith which is by him hath given 
him this perfect soundness in the presence of you 
all." And I thank God to-day that the same faith, 
put in lively exercise, will produce the same effect. 
Turn to the 11th chapter of Hebrews and see 
what was accomplished by faith. Is the ear of 
God heavier to-day, that he does not hear, or his 
arm shortened that he does not save ? Nay, 
verily, he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for- 
ever. But, says one, we have no such spirit- 
ual gifts in the churches now as they used to have. 
Turn to the 12th chapter of 1st Corinthians and 
read the gifts of the church. The word says, 
" Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I 
w T ould not have you ignorant," then goes on 
describing the different gifts, and there is no 
place between the lids of the Bible where we 
read those gifts have ever been withdrawn; but 
the churches have degenerated from the truth and 
its proper standing so much so, that even professing 
Christians will call it the work of the Devil. But 
we that believe that the prayer of faith shall save 
the sick, " and the Lord shall raise him up, and if 
he has committed sins they shall be forgiven him," 



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let us take courage, for they said of Christ, he 
hath a devil; but some said, " can a devil open the 
eyes of the blind ? " Now God has promised, and 
that is enough for us; faith begins only when 
reasoning ends, and if we wish God to answer, 
stop asking questions whether He will or will 
not, and how. God's promises are unqualified, 
save that they require an unhesitating faith which 
asks no questions, only believes, and believing as I 
do, that God's promises are sure, and that by a 
blessed and happy experience have proved them 
as such, I feel it my duty to lay my experience 
before the public, although I consider my weak- 
ness and insufficiency to do the work, but ask God 
to lead my mind and guide my pen as I write, 
that I might increase the faith of some poor suffer- 
ing ones, who are beyond the reach of aid from the 
arm of flesh, and are willing to trust in God for 
deliverance. 

I was born of a consumptive family, and 
nearly twenty-three years ago a skillful phy- 
sician after sounding my lungs, told me I could 
not live over two weeks; I could not go up a pair 
of stairs without sitting down on them once or 
twice; my cough was terrible, he gave me some 



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tincture of barks, and told me to diet and to leave 
the city, and if I had any friends in the country 
to go there. So I came to my sisters, in Goshen, 
Conn., and following his advice I began to im- 
prove, by the change of air and rest from hard labor; 
the improvement was rapid, in a few months I was 
able to go out to service, and the next spring fol- 
lowing I was married. My general health was 
very good for years, I was able to do almost any 
amount of labor. In the meantime loved ones were 
added to the family, but only to sicken and die; 
and so we have laid them away one by one, those 
we loved in other years, till alone and broken- 
hearted we have nothing left but tears; the last 
lovely one we laid in her resting place eight 
years ago, which made seven in number; all died 
with lung disease. Then my health began to fail, 
my lungs became very weak, and with all the 
tenderness and weakness there was about them, 
yet I could sing. I was growing so weak in 
body that I could not walk down to the hall to 
meeting. I did so dread the thought that 1 could 
not walk that distance, which was not one quarter 
of a mile, and the two last times I walked down 
Mr. Mix was obliged to go home and harness the 



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horse and come after me. Consumption had again 
made its second attack. About that time sister 
Whitney, of Wolcottville, was very sick; she had 
four or five different physicians, still she was fail- 
ing, there was no hope unless God interposed; I 
talked with brother Whitney, and finally prevailed 
upon him to send for brother Allen of Springfield, 
Mass., who I had heard had the gift of healing. 

He was sent for and he came, bringing with him 
brother and sister Loomis; after I .heard they 
had come I began to think about myself, and rea- 
son like this: you have so much faith that sister 
Whitney w T ill be healed in answer to prayer, why 
don't you have brother Allen pray for you ? I 
settled the question in my mind in this way, I 
would say nothing to brother Allen about it, but 
if he said anything about praying for me, all right. 

The next morning, December 19th, 1877, after 
their arrival they came over to our house to have 
a season of prayer for sister Whitney. Mr. Mix 
and myself united our prayers with them in behalf 
of sister Whitney, and when I was praying brother 
Allen noticed something in my prayer that con- 
vinced him that all was not right with me concern- 
ing health, and be asked me if I enjoyed good 



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health. I replied, no, sir; he asked me if I did not 
believe that God would heal me in answer to 
prayer, the reply was, yes; he said, do you believe 
he will heal you now? yes, was the quick answer; 
he said, all unite in prayer with me in behalf of 
sister Mix. 

We again knelt in prayer, and as brother Allen 
felt the power of the Holy Ghost upon him, he 
arose and laid his hand upon my head, in the 
name of the Lord; at that moment I believed I was 
healed, the room was filled with the glory of God, 
so much so that sister Loomis fell to the floor as 
one dead, and I was so overwhelmed with the 
power of God, I felt that everything like disease 
was removed; I felt as light as a feather, as if I 
could run through a troop, and leap over a wall. I 
leaped for joy into the other room, shouting vic- 
tory in the name of Jesus, and I was not afraid to 
tell it that I was healed of some troubles I had for 
twenty years, I was relieved of them, praise the 
name of the Lord. Brother Allen said he was im- 
pressed that I had the gift of healing; I could 
hardly believe it to be true, still it was in my mind 
a great deal, and as I believe in proving all things, 
and holding fast to that which is good, I had a 



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little wart under my right eye the size of a small 
darning needle, I thought I would take that as a 
test, and as I retired at night I told the Lord in 
these words: I will lay my hand upon this in the 
name of Jesus, and if I have the gift let this be 
removed. As I arose in the morning, being very 
busy about my household cares I did not think of 
it until I was passing the mirror, I stopped, and 
to my surprise it was withered and dry; I just 
touched it and it dropped off. I knew it was of the 
Lord. In a few days I was taken with diphtheria, 
and I took it to the Lord in prayer, laying my 
hand upon my throat in the name of Jesus, and in 
less than a day I was entirely cured of it, and so 
the Lord has led me on. I commenced laboring 
among neighbors. Then the news spread to 
towns and villages, and cities and states, and I can 
say, praise the Lord for his goodness and his 
wonderful works to the children of men. 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 



VICTORY THROUGH CHRIST. 

In this chapter is given the experience of a dear 
sister, who has been brought triumphantly through 
the conflict, by the conquering might of her Lord; 
and before my dear readers listen to the recital of 
her long illness and wonderful deliverance, I be- 
lieve that they will be interested in a sweet little 
poem, which she composed when she had no 
thought of being freed from her suffering, except 
by death. To all those who are still helpless these 
little verses will be a song attuned to their own 
heart-longings. 

LOST, THE SOUND OF FOOTSTEPS. 

BY ALICE M. BALL. 

Lost, the sound of footsteps — my own footsteps ; just once 

more 
Do I long to hear the music of my feet upon the floor ; 
Dream I of the days, now vanished, when my lips first learned 

to talk, 
Of the mother's love that fondly taught a little child to walk : 
In the silence that surrounds me, tired of silence, tired of 

pain, 
Do I long for hands to guide me till Fve learned to walk 

again. 



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Lost, the sound of footsteps ; how the days have come and 

gone, 
And my steps, forever silenced, wake no echo in our home. 
Music floats about me, sweetly wafted on the air, 
And the hum of merry voices sounds about me everywhere, 
While I fondly long for music, that can be mine nevermore — 
Just the music of my footsteps — my own footsteps on the floor. 

Lost, the sound of footsteps ; and I wait, day after day, 

In the midst of this long silence, where the Master bids me stay, 

And dream of spacious meadows, where my child feet used to 

roam ; 
Of the foot-prints left so often on the graveled walks at home. 
Does the Father know how restless our weak human feet may 

grow, 
And does He guide them just as safely, when they lie in 

shadows so? 

Lost, the sound of footsteps ; when the soul's work here is done, 
When the gates of Heaven are opened, and our Father bids 

me come 
From this silence so unbroken by the tread of human feet, 
Over where immortal footsteps echo on the golden street, 
Then, till then, dear Father, teach me, that through all these 

fearful depths, 
In the silence that surrounds me, Thou art guiding still my 

steps ; 
And when life for me is over, even in Heaven may I once more 
Hear again the sound of footsteps, my own footsteps on the 

floor? 



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PlTTSFIELD, MA8S., 

Valley Farm, June 22, 1880. 

My Dear Carrie : — I consider it a privilege to 
give, what you have asked, the story of my re- 
lease from bondage in answer to the " prayer of 
faith " ; bondage that was dark, deep and mysteri- 
ous, and of eighteen years' duration. Two months 
previous to my twelfth birthday, I was taken sick 
at school, with what shortly proved to be an attack 
of measles. I was not dangerously ill, and as soon 
as could be expected, I was about the house, ap- 
parently my former healthy, happy self. But the 
first ride I attempted after the illness, brought on 
a sort of nervous spasm, of short duration, but 
sufficiently different from anything I had ever ex- 
perienced before, to prove that all was not well. 
For six months I was able to take long walks, eat 
and sleep well, but steadily creeping upon me I 
felt those strange inexplicable nervous feelings, 
that changed life, and my desires concerning it. 
During the following two years I had severe sick 
spells, from which I would rally, after awhile, with 
strong holds upon hope, but, at length, so thor- 
oughly had disease overpowered me, I was obliged 
to succumb, and awful suffering and depression it 



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was my lot to bear. Shortly after my removal 
here, began a contest between sickness and health, 
life and death, which it is neither pleasant, nor 
profitable, to attempt to describe. 

What I have suffered, hoped, and feared, it is 
beyond my power to tell. Many physicians have 
attended my case, but although, in some instances, 
temporary relief has been obtained, nothing perma- 
nent has been granted, except the knowledge that, 
in my case, " vain is the help of man." 

After the summer of 1867 I was confined wholly 
to the house and mostly to my bed, being, very 
frequently, for days at a time, utterly unable to 
lift my head from the pillow, or be moved the 
least particle without agony. During the summer 
of 1868, under the careful treatment of Dr. A. M. 
Smith, of this city, I was much relieved of spinal 
and nervous trouble, and shall never cease thank- 
ing God for timely aid afforded ; for several subse- 
quent years, under this physician's care, had more 
comfortable times allotted me than I had known 
for a long period of time before, but a sufferer I 
was still, and must have remained, had not the 
dear Master graciously interposed in my behalf. 

I was unable to walk or stand one moment alone 



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upon my feet, a terrible dizziness, and pressure in 
the heart, attending every attempt of this kind. 
The cords of my lower limbs were contracted. For 
sixteen years I had not been able to lie an instant 
upon my left side; could take but small quantities 
of food, and often, for weeks at a time, was unable 
to take the least nourishment without great in- 
crease of pain. In one of your letters you speak 
of what you suffered from " exaltation of sensi- 
bility." How much that means to me ! During 
seasons of great prostration I have lain, for hours 
at a time, in that condition that had a person 
entered my room, had there been any unusual 
noise (how I used to pray that nothing of the 
kind might occur), I do not know how I could 
have endured it. My dear mother used to sit in 
the room adjoining mine, doing all in her power to 
hinder increase of excitement. I have endured 
the most excruciating pain, and have suffered 
about as much, it seems to me, as poor humanity 
could endure. 

How zealously I strove to overcome disease, and 
regain my health, willing to submit to the most se- 
vere experiments suggested by physicians, if offered 
thereby any hope of relief, many can testify. 



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Last July, and once more in September, prayer 
was offered for me by Dr. Charles Cullis, of Bos- 
ton, Mass. I was blessed spiritually, but was not 
yet prepared to take hold upon the promises, and 
claim a physical cure. About this time I was led 
to plead for a consecrated heart, and began to 
taste the blessedness of giving myself wholly away 
to God; began to ask, and receive, answers to my 
prayers in so remarkable a manner, that I could 
doubt no longer the willingness of Jehovah to 
speak to the children of men. 

At some future time, I want to give you the 
particulars concerning special answers to prayer 
in a time of great wonderment and depression in 
regard to financial embarrassments. 

Very soon reports were brought me concerning 
the great faith of some colored people of Wolcott- 
ville, Conn, (your own case, my dear Carrie, being 
prominent among those that helped increase my 
courage), and as these good people were soon ex- 
pecting to visit Pittsfield, I was advised to see 
them. But alas ! like Naaman, I questioned 
whether the waters of Israel were any better than 
those of Pharpar and Abana ; why my own 
prayers, or those of my Christian neighbors, 



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might not avail as much as the prayers of Mrs. 
Mix. I think one of the most important truths 
which I have been called to learn, since coming to 
this life of faith, is, that of all His children the 
Lord demands obedience. 

Looking unto Him, prayerfully, I was led to 
Mrs. Mix. On the second of November she came 
to me, prayed with me — friends in various parts of 
the house uniting in prayer for me at the same 
time — and without assistance from any human 
agency, I arose and walked j no dizziness seized 
me, nor was there any inclination to fall. I had 
said in the morning that if, in this life, I was ever 
able to walk to mother's kitchen and, coming 
through certain rooms, back to my bed, I would 
say I was healed. 

Before dark, on that long to be remembered 
Sunday, I accomplished this feat easily, and mother 
and daughter praised God from fervent hearts. 
Cords so long contracted straightened in one 
night. I could now take food regularly without 
distress, and the word of the Master came to me 
with power : " Wait on the Lord : be of good 
courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart; 
wait, I say, on the Lord." — Psalm xxvii. 14 



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I had yet to learn many lessons, however; among 
other things, that what I had now commenced is 
termed, and is, in truth, the very "fight of faith." I 
think I have met every foe that Pilgrim encoun- 
tered on the first part of his journey from the city 
of Destruction, from Worldly Wiseman down to 
Simple and Presumption; each has had his say. 
Thanks be to God, I am trusting still. 

Not many days had passed before old symptoms 
returned, and, according to human appearances, 
there was need of medicine. The tempter began an 
argument with my soul, somewhat difficult to 
resist, telling me that I could go no further with- 
out this, which had been my help so many 
years. In an agony of suspense and fear I came 
direct to God for light, for direction; and He 
spoke peace to my soul. I gave orders for my 
medicine to be thrown away; whether I could lift 
my head or not, I would trust ! 

Among other inestimable blessings, my Lord 
has granted me a mother strong in faith; when 
my own began to waver, hers but shone the clearer, 
and together we fought on. On the third of No- 
vember, walking a short distance from our door, I 
had plucked a green leaf and borne it triumphantly 



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to mother, by whom it was received as truly an 
evidence that the waters were abating, as was the 
olive leaf by Noah. I gained so rapidly, that, in the 
course of a few weeks, taking a friend's arm and a 
cane, I walked across the street to sister's. 

O, it is all too glorious to describe, the won- 
drous way my Lord has led me on, seeming some- 
times " for a small moment " to have forsaken me, 
but with " everlasting mercy " bearing me in 
mind. Gradually (my first word from the dear 
Lord, when I came to Him for healing, had been 
" wait ") my faith and strength increased, until I 
could walk some little distance on the frozen earth 
each day, and make short calls at near neighbors. 
We had lived in our house for seventeen years, 
and never, until since my cure, had I seen the 
upper rooms. Each trip upstairs seemed as new, 
and grand, and strange, as most people's trips to 
Europe. 

Meanwhile, matters had been so arranged that 
the coming spring, my only sister was expecting 
to move one mile away, and was very desirous of 
taking mother and myself with her to her new 
home; but above everything, this side of death, 
stood my dread of riding. For eighteen years 



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every attempt to ride had occasioned s}Ktsms y 
followed by such long prostration as was terrible 
to recall, and just here Satan stood over me exult- 
ant for many days. 

I did not always wisely remember that God's 
Word does not promise aid in advance of trial, 
but " as thy day so shall thy strength be." When 
the full time for my first experience in the carriage 
came, the recollection of the agony I had endured 
in times past, for a moment overpowered me; my 
strength left me, my heart grew tremulous, and I 
called mightily unto God for help, for some word 
of cheer. Opening the good Book, expectantly, 
I was directed to these words : " He giveth power 
to the faint, and to them that have no might He 
increaseth strength." — Isaiah xl. 29. What could 
I ask more. 

I went to the carriage, praising God. Victory 
did not crown my first effort, nor the next, but 
knowing that my Lord had promised — victory 
must he mine. All in good time it came; no 
larger than the cloud for which Elijah waited, was 
its first appearance, but by degrees I found that I 
could bear the motion of the carriage, and still 
better as time went on. I could be drawn slowly 



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across the yard, but the thought of that one-mile 
drive terminating in change of home and surround- 
ings, which I was so soon expected to undertake, 
Satan was permitted to hold before my mind's 
eyes for many days and nights, harassing me with 
doubts and fears, terrible to endure. On the 
twentieth of May, in an easy carriage phaeton, 
drawn by a gentle horse, I rode a quarter of a 
mile without spasms or any great distress. Vic- 
tory was mine; friends stood upon the sidewalk, 
speaking words of encouragement and praise as we 
passed along, and the thankfulness that went up 
from my heart that afternoon, no one but the dear 
Master knows anything about. 

Now I began coming to the dear Lord for un- 
wavering faith concerning that long-dreaded 
removal to my new home, and on the morning of 
the second of June, little dreaming that that was 
the day appointed by the dear Master for the 
same, my cry unto him was answered by these 
words of promise, " Behold I am with thee, and 
will keep thee in all places whither thou goest 
* * * for I will not leave thee until I have done 
that which I have spoken to thee of." — Gen. 
xxviii. 15. 



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There had been no time appointed for my transit 
to other quarters, but that June morning it was 
as if my Lord had told me that the time was near 
at hand. To my great amazement, nervous 
anxiety was removed. I was wonderfully at rest, 
and began making preparations for a hasty exit; 
whether that day, or three months from that day, 
none but the dear Lord knew. 

During the early part of the afternoon I was 
enabled to call at a certain neighbor's, whom I had 
desired to visit before leaving our old home, and 
make a farewell call at another place not far away. 
Returning home, somewhat exhausted, I sought 
my bed for rest, and rest was granted. And now, 
at the right ?nome?it, my brother-in-law, at his 
store some little distance away, whom I had not 
seen for some time, and to whom no one had 
spoken of calling for me to ride that day, was 
impressed to come to us with horse and phaeton. 
The time was now fully come. I was gloriously 
strengthened ; rode to my new home without 
injury, or any great fatigue. Was not my Lord 
fulfilling His word of promise, gloriously ? Is it 
any wonder if my soul is so filled with praise that 
the one hundred and third Psalm will keep surging 



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up from its very depths ? I have given you a 
somewhat lengthy account, but the story can 
never be half told. I am in a delightful place to 
praise God all the day long, am growing stronger 
and better as the days go by, have long since 
lain on my left side; in %hort, am being, made 
every whit whole, thanks be to God, Who " giveth 
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 

Alice M. Ball. 



Goodrich, Genesee Co., Mich., June, 1880. 
Dear Friend: — Some time since I solicited 
your prayers for my daughter; now I write to 
tell that we feel without a doubt she is cured. 
Oh, what a wonderful thing this faith cure is, for 
we can take hold of the promises of God with an 
unyielding grasp, and expect answers to our pray- 
ers. I feel that my faith is stronger now than it 
ever was before, and how we thank you that you 
united with us in prayer for her recovery; now we 
don't pray for her to be healed, but we thank God 
every day that he has cured her. I hope this faith 
cure may go on until thousands are cured; now, as 
I close, let me thank you again, and thank God 
for what he has done for us, with regards to you. 

Mrs. N. H. Farr. 



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Goodrich, Mich., June 22. 

Dear Friexd: — Though a stranger, a dear 

friend, I can of a truth testify to the words of my 

mother, and would feel condemned a great sinner 

before God, if, when I kneel to pray, I would not 

thank. him for his blessings towards me. Xow, 

Mrs. Mix, accept my thanks for your prayers, as I 

feel it has been a cure and a lesson of faith to me; 

kind regards to you, Mrs. Mix, and if it should be 

convenient, and you would not find it a burden, 

write to me. 

Yours truly, 

Elxora I. Farr. 



Burryille, August 23, 1880. 
I have been requested to give to the public an 
account of what has been done for me within the 
past two years, and perhaps some suffering one 
may see it and feel encouraged, and accept the 
way laid down in the word of God to be healed by 
faith. I cannot tell you much of the thirty-four 
years of my life that I have spent an invalid, shut 
out from the world and confined to a sick room; 
those years were filled up with disappointments, 
self-denial, and very much suffering. I was not 



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twenty-one when I became an invalid; I think I 
had spinal disease, with acute inflammation of the 
kidneys. 

At the commencement of my sickness, I seemed 
to lose all muscular power; I could not raise 
myself in bed, or get out of my chair alone; 
could not raise my feet upon the lower round of a 
chair for several years. I soon began to show 
that I was full of scrofula, and as I advanced in 
years other diseases and weaknesses came, and all 
that medicine or the skill of physicians could do, 
did not bring me health or the muscular power 
that I so much needed; medicine relieved for a lit- 
tle time, but did not cure. My case seemed mys- 
terious and very difficult to understand, and I 
lived along in this miserable, sickly way, thirty- 
four years, and I concluded to wait patiently God's 
time and accept whatever came. But I really had 
no expectation in life. I had spells of hemorrhage 
twelve years, and was often brought so low that I 
could not speak aloud for three weeks, and my 
physician could find no pulse for a week, and one 
time I lay one hundred and twenty days without 
being able to sit up long enough to eat one meal. 
I had to lie in one position for several months at a 



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time. I have not lain an hour upon my left side 
for twelve years because of a heart difficulty. I 
have had dropsy by spells for fifteen years, and 
became a monstrous body; my natural weight was 
not one hundred pounds, but I looked as if I would 
weigh nearly two hundred, and my dresses meas- 
ured around the waist one yard and three-quar- 
ters. My limbs below the knee had become 
small, had been perishing for two years; there 
seemed scarcely any circulation in them; they ap- 
peared to be more dead than alive. About four 
years ago a gravelly substance began to work out 
of my flesh about the size of small pin heads, 
coming through the pores of the skin, and are 
found in all the scrofula sores I have, and I have 
had two hundred of them at one time, and I think 
it would be safe to say there has full eight quarts 
of this mysterious substance worked out of my 
flesh up to the present time. My family physician 
is a man of many years' experience; he said he 
never saw anything like it, and would not have 
believed it if he had not seen it himself; and in con- 
nection with this I would say that very many large 
gravel stones have formed in the kidneys, giving 
me terrible distress, such as I never can express. 



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In the fall of 1878 I heard of the cures that 
Mrs. Mix of Wolcottville had performed; at that 
time I was going down fast, and I felt that I 
could not live long. I heard that she had been 
instrumental in restoring the sight of a blind 
woman in Wolcottville, and I thought if she could 
restore sight to the blind and make the lame to 
walk, perhaps there could be something done for 
me. I had been impressed more than a year that 
medicine would never cure me, and nothing but 
an Almighty power could do it, and I must trust 
in the Lord for it. The most that I could walk 
for years was from two to three yards, holding up 
by everything that came in my way. Mrs. Mix 
was sought for, and she came 'to see me November 
7, 1878. She came full of faith, believing the 
Lord would raise me up and restore me to health, 
and after the first treatment I walked out of my 
bed-room, across the sitting-room and back, and 
from that time there was a change. I had power 
to walk given me, although my feet and limbs 
seemed so nearly dead. I had a great deal to con- 
tend with; my whole body was diseased, and since 
that time have been walking about the house and 
out of doors. I first began to walk in November, 



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and the next May was the first time I put my feet 
upon the ground in twenty-four years; everything 
around looked to me like a new creation. I could 
then praise God and take courage; my heart was 
full of thanksgiving and praise. The change was 
very gradual; in about four days after Mrs. Mix's 
first visit I had a severe sick spell; it was not like 
anything I experienced in all the thirty-four years 
of my sickness. But it was evident there was a 
change taking place to throw off disease. It is 
now some more than a year and a half since I 
began to get better, and in that time I have had 
ten of those spells, and they are all attended with 
dropsy. I am much less in size after each one, 
and find I am better than before; in one of those 
sick spells I lay in a sweat five days. I am very 
much reduced in size, and am looking quite like 
other people. My right lung had been inactive, 
and I think I had no use of it for years, and it was 
evident the lung was diseased. I believed there 
was an abscess or some sort of a sore in the lower 
part of the lung. I became very sick from the 
lung disease. But in a few days I felt that it was 
restored and just as well as the other, only some- 
what weaker, and at the present time feel no pain 



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or difficulty about it. I am not strong and well 
yet, but I am changing all the time for the better. 
I walk about the yard and go about the house and 
do light work, feeling that I must use the strength 
God has given to some purpose, and I so much 
enjoy going about from room to room, although it 
seems strange to hear the sound of my own foot- 
steps after being shut away in my room so many 
years. It is beautiful to me to look back and see 
what care the Lord has taken of me for a year and 
a half. I have not taken a spoonful of medicine 
in that time, although I have had ten severe sick 
spells. I have trusted in the Lord to raise me up 
and he has brought me safe through every time. 
I feel there must have been a divine agency in 
all this, or I should have died. I believe it is of 
the Lord. Oh, I have had such joy and peace in 
trusting in our Heavenly Father. I am learning 
to trust in Him for everything. This living by 
faith gives spiritual life and joy and comfort, 
such as we can obtain from no other source. I 
am not perfectly well and strong, but I am trust- 
ing in the Lord for a full restoration of health and 
strength in His own good time. 

Mrs. Sarah M. Burr. 
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No. 260 Connecticut Street, 
Buffalo, N. Y., July 7, 1880. 

On the sixth of January, 1877, after a gradual 
decline in health, I was prostrated with an attack 
of fever, proceeding from my spine, the result, 
probably, of a severe fall on a stone sidewalk sev- 
eral months before. The fever was soon subdued, 
but my disease grew into settled spinal difficulty, 
and from the inflammation of the spinal nerves pro- 
ceeded a most distressing hyper-acuteness, called 
hyperesthesia. This extended to all my large 
joints; and my hips, knees and ankles could not 
be touched even by myself, on account of their 
sensitiveness. The disease increased until the 
nerves in the joints were so unnaturally alive that 
it was as if they had been laid bare, and it seemed 
to me as though nothing less than spasms would 
be the immediate result were they touched. The 
vibrating of these sensitive nerves, occasioned by 
the tiniest jar or noise in the room, was some- 
thing indescribably dreadful. 

For all but the first two months of my illness, 
extreme helplessness as well as suffering made my 
lot almost unendurable. For more than two years, 



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turning over alone or moving myself a particle in 
bed was simply an impossibility. Every move 
was made for me with the greatest care. I 
suffered intensely with my head; the violent, 
tearing pain, the terrible sense of weight, and the 
extreme sensitiveness made a soft, small pillow 
feel like a block of stone, the pressure of which 
was crushing my brain to atoms. Much of the 
time we were obliged to exclude from the room 
all excepting those who had the care of me. 

For eleven months I could not sit up at all, but 
in the spring of 1878 improved slowly, and could 
be lifted into a chair for a little while each day. I 
was more comfortable until July, but I could not 
by my greatest exertions get able to help myself 
at all. The only way in which I could be moved 
from the bed to the chair, was by being lifted 
under my arms, as I could endure no pressure on 
my spine. 

The very warm weather at that time, and my 
making attempts to help myself when in such a 
weak condition, caused a sudden and violent re- 
lapse, and, in spite of everything that could be 
done for me, I continued to fail. I rallied a little 
in the autumn, but only temporarily. 



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In January, 1879, my mother's mother, who had 
lived with us for years and who was very dear to 
me, died at our house, after a short illness. I was 
so low at the time that there could be no public 
notice of her death, and only a few intimate 
friends were admitted into our silent house. 

By the middle of February, my weakness was 
so great that most of the time I could scarcely 
speak in a whisper, and sometimes could only 
move my lips. Often the exertion of whispering 
one word would cause the perspiration to start 
profusely; and I would lie for hours needing some- 
thing rather than ask for it. I could take no solid 
food whatever, and it exhausted me greatly to 
swallow even liquid food. 

My disease had grown into blood consumption; 
I was emaciated to a shadow, and my largest 
veins looked like mere threads. Nothing could 
keep me warm, and the chill of death seemed upon 
me. A great part of the time I lay gasping faintly 
for breath, and I suffered excruciatingly. Even the 
weight of my arms and limbs seemed to be almost 
unendurable, and this terrible strain was constant. 
My pulse could scarcely be found, and I was not 
expected to live from one day to the next. Dr. 



Davis, a well known physician of Attica, tried his 
skill, but failed. Dr. Baethig of this city also 
treated the case with a like result. Then Dr. Lon 
See On, a Chinese physician, educated in his own 
country, was called. He is a gifted fellow, and 
treated the case, but was unable to do any good. 
Everything that the most skillful physicians could 
do for me had been done; only the " Great Phy- 
sician " could restore me by His almighty power. 
I have no doubt that it was ordered by Providence, 
that, just at this time, there should appear in the 
daily paper a short account of the wonderful 
cures performed in answer to the prayers of Mrs. 
Edward Mix, a colored lady, of Wolcottville, Conn. 
The article represented her as an earnest, humble 
Christian, who simply professed to be doing God's 
work. She had herself been cured, after years of 
ill health, by the prayers and laying on of hands 
of a Rev. Mr. Allen, of Springfield. Mother men- 
tioned these facts to me, and the more I thought 
on the subject, the more I felt that a letter must 
be written her in regard to my own case. I had 
often heard of faith cures before this, and there 
had been read to me some portions of W. W. 
Patton's book, " Remarkable Answers to Prayer," 



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but, although not discrediting them, none had 
ever produced so great an impression on my 
mind as this short account of Mrs. Mix. I waited 
a few hours, then requested my sister to write her 
that I believed her great faith might avail for me, 
if she would pray for my recovery, even if she were 
not present to lay her hands upon me. On Tues- 
day, February 25th, her answer came as follows: 

Wolcottville, Conn., February 24, 1879. 
Miss Carrie Judd: — I received a line from your 
sister Eva, stating your case, your disease and 
your faith. I can encourage you, by the Word of 
God, that, " according to your faith," so be it 
unto you; and besides you have this promise, 
" The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the 
Lord shall raise him up." Whether the person is 
present or absent, if it is a "prayer of faith," it 
is all the same, and God has promised to raise up 
the sick ones, and if they have committed sins to 
forgive them. Now this promise is to you, as if 
you were the only person living. Now if you can 
claim that promise, I have not the least doubt but 
what you will be healed. You will first have to 
lay aside all medicine of every description. Use 



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• no remedies of any kind for anything. Lay aside 
trusting in the " arm of flesh," and lean wholly 
upon God and His promises. When you receive 
this letter I want you to begin to pray for faith, 
and Wednesday afternoon the female prayer-meet- 
ing is at our house.* We will make you a subject 
of prayer, between the hours of three and four. I 
want you to pray for yourself, and pray believing, 
and then act faith. It makes no difference how 
you feel, but get right out of bed and begin to 
walk by faith. Strength will come, disease will 
depart and you will be made whole. We read in 
the Gospel, " Thy faith hath made thee whole." 
Write soon. Yours in faith, 

Mrs. Edward Mix. 

Is it any wonder that in my utter weakness, my- 
confirmed helplessness, and, above all, my lack of 
faith, that I was tempted to smile unbelievingly 
at the words, " get right out of bed and begin to 
walk by faith " ? My conscience reproved me for 
my unbelief, and I began to pray for an increase 
of faith. I left off all medicine at once, though I 

* But the weather being stormy no one came, so there was 
none to pray but Mr. Mix and myself. 



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confess it was with a struggle, for I was very de- 
pendent upon it for temporary alleviation of my 
extreme suffering. At the hour appointed by Mrs. 
Mix, members of our own family also offered up 
prayer, though not in my room. Just before this, 
I seemed to have no power, whatever, to grasp the 
promise. Terrible darkness and powerful tempta- 
tions from Satan rose to obscure even the little 
faith I had, but suddenly my soul was filled with 
a childlike peace and confidence different from 
anything I had ever before experienced. 

There was no excitement, but, without the least 
fear or hesitation, I turned over and raised up 
alone, for the first time in over two years. My 
nurse, Mrs. H., who had taken care of me for nearly 
a year, was greatly affected, and began praising God 
for His wonderful power and mercy. 

Directly after, with a little support from my 
nurse, I walked a few steps to my chair. During 
that same hour, a decided change was perceptible 
in my color, circulation and pulse, and I could talk 
aloud with ease. Referring to my diary, which 
was kept by Mrs. H., I find under February 27th, 
which was the day after my restoration: "Carrie 
moved herself in bed several times during the 



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nio-ht. This afternoon she walked from her chair 
to the bed, a distance of about eight feet, by tak- 
ing hold of my arms. The Lord strengthens her 
every hour, both physically and in faith. Blessed 
be His holy Name! " Then, under February 28th: 
" Carrie grows stronger, moves herself more easily, 
rests better nights, has a good appetite. I gave 
her a sponge-bath this afternoon, and I could not 
but notice the change in the color of her flesh ; in- 
stead of the yellow, dead look, it is pink and full 
of life." Under March 1st: "This morning she' 
drew on her stockings." March 2d: "Her chest 
and lungs have been strong; she has talked aloud 
a great deal. Appetite good; color fresh and 
clear." 

In about three weeks I could walk around the 
room without even having any one near me; in 
four weeks I walked down stairs with a little 
assistance; I walked very steadily from the first, 
and my joints, which had been so weakened by the 
hyperesthesia, grew strong and firm at once. My 
muscles filled out very rapidly, but I suffered noth- 
ing from aching or lameness, even after I com- 
menced going up and down stairs. 

The first pleasant day in April I went out of 



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doors and into a neighbor's. It seemed as though 
it was almost too much joy to comprehend, to 
really be out in the air and sunshine once more. 
I looked up at the windows of my room with a 
vague idea that there must be imprisoned there 
still, a prostrate, suffering creature, of whom I 
had once been a part, but now was freed from by 
some mysterious process. The thought of my 
long and terrible suffering, and of my sudden and 
joyful deliverance, almost overwhelms me now as 
I review it all so minutely. 

I will mention here, that it was especially notice- 
able, during my healing, that whenever I made any 
extra exertion of my own, suddenly, and without 
the least apparent cause, my strength would fail 
me. It was soon revealed to me, that I was sim- 
ply to look to the Lord for improvement; that as 
He had begun the work, He would carry it on 
without any strivings on my part. 

The more fully I cast myself upon Him, the 
more I was supported, and often I felt borne up as 
if by some buoyancy in the air, while there was 
little or no effort of my own. Even more won- 
derful, and infinitely more precious, than being 
brought from death unto life, physically, is the 



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renewed life which the soul experiences at the 
same time under the healing influence of the Holv 
Spirit. A deep, intense love for God is implanted 
in the heart, worldly desires and ambitions sink 
into nothingness, the one absorbing thought is to 
be conformed more and more to the image of 
Christ, and the forgiveness of sins promised with 
the healing in James v. 14, 15, is experienced as 
never before. 

My gain in flesh and strength was rapid, and 
my friends say that I am now looking better than 
ever before. The trouble in my head, wdiich was 
almost constant for a long time before my pros- 
tration, entirely disappeared when I was cured, 
and I can do a vast amount of studying and writ- 
ing without even a slight headache. I can also 
take very long w^alks and enjoy them. 

All glory be to our merciful and loving Re- 
deemer! and that I may ever abide in Him, and 
bring forth the " fruit of the Spirit," is the daily 
prayer of my life. 

Carrie F. Jitdd. 

With my kind pastor's permission I publish 
the following letter; his reply to one which I re- 
ceived from a stranger: 



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No. 790 Seventh Street, 
Buffalo, N. Y., March 13, 1880. 

Dear Sir: — Miss Judd has shown me your 
favor of the 11th inst., and requests me to vouch 
for her entire credibility. 

I do this with great pleasure, the more so that 
I have known her so long, and have been entirely 
conversant with all the facts in the case, from the 
beginning. I can assure you of her long and 
painful illness, of her utter and complete prostra- 
tion, of the immediate expectation of death by 
herself and all her friends; during all those months 
I ministered at her bedside, and saw her draw 
nearer and nearer to the end. 

But suddenly, and, of course, by the interposi- 
tion of God, and doubtless in answer to the prayers 
of the Church and of the faithful, she was, so 
to speak, in a day restored, and is now in perfect 
health. Of these facts I assure you. They are 
well known to all here, and you have only to ask 
any resident of Buffalo to be satisfied of the 
truthfulness of all that she may tell you. 

Why should it be accounted strange that God 
should raise one of his children from the bed of 
death ? I confess I see no reason. His promise 



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was for all time, " unto yon, and to your chil- 
dren," and if we gain less now, it is because we 
are less faithful, and not because His promise is 
less sure. 

I shall be glad to give you any further informa- 
tion in my power, if you desire it. 

Yery truly, C. F. A. Bielby, 

Rector St. Mary 's-Church-on-the- Hill (Episcopal). 



"West Meriden, August 19. 

I was taken sick two years ago last spring with 
nervous prostration and sciatic rheumatism, which 
made me unable to walk. I have been confined to 
the house and to my bed most of the time. I had 
three different physicians, but did not seem to get 
any better. Last October I had a dreadful cough 
come on which made me much worse. 

Mrs. Mix visited me last April; from that very 
hour I began to improve. I walked down stairs 
that evening, and the next day I rode out. 

I am now so I can walk any ordinary distance. 
My cough has wholly left me. 
Respectfully, 

Carrie B. Rice. 



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Burnham House, East Bridgford, 
Nottinghamshire, England, February, 16, 1880. 

Dear Mrs. Mix: — I am very, very much obliged 
for your kind letters, and especially for an interest 
in your prayers which I still much need. I am 
still gaining strength in spite of the cold, stormy 
weather, but it rather tries my chest. 

I keep my eye upon my Great Physician, and 
constantly take my pain and weakness' to Him. 
I can walk now two miles at once; it is a great 
change. I saw my surgeon three weeks ago; he 
said my restoration was a " perfect miracle." He 
.would as soon have thought of seeing his baby six 
months old walk as me. It is such a blessing to 
have such a precious physician to fly to in our 
weakness. 

I am far from strong jet. My complaints arp 
numerous. Three of my medical men have wished 
me to undergo an operation for one complaint I 
suffer from, but I keep laying it before the Lord 
and expect Him to heal completely, I am sure He 
is able and perfectly willing. My home is being 
broken up in March, owing to the death of my 
parents, which, of course, is very trying for me in 
my weakness. There is a great deal to excite and 



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upset me. Do pray for the Lord to guide, in- 
struct and keep me. I am so delicate that every 
one seems afraid to take me in. Yet the Lord I 
know will open some door and direct me. 

I intend if the Lord strengthens me to recom- 
mence my work amongst the poor in Lincoln. Do 
ask the Lord to fit me, if He intends it. I long to 
win souls for Him. I have nothing to live for but 
Ills glory. I should have written before but have 
had so much to think of. I know you will like to 
hear how I am. I have thought of publishing my 
case of healing for God's glory and the encourage- 
ment of others. If you write to me before the 
last of March, address as before, please. 

Believe me, yours sincerely, in Christ Jesus, 
Miss Louise Lockwood. 



Mrs. E. Mix. New Haven, June 30, 1880. 

My Dear Friend: — I take pleasure in writ- 
ing you the explanation of my case, and how 
wonderfully I am being healed through faith 
and trust in God. 

I have been an invalid for seven years the mid- 
dle of August, with scrofula, rheumatic inflamma- 



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tion of the throat, spine and nerves, and tubercles. 
When you first called to see me (a little over a 
year ago), I was very weak and extremely nervous, 
my spine and throat being a very agonizing 
trouble, having three weeks previous to your call 
a very ill turn. I had not my voice above a low 
whisper, and growing much worse daily, could not 
use my left arm of any account; my right one I 
could use to take my medicine when as well as 
usual. The pain was so acute in my spine I 
could hardly turn in bed at all; my lungs were 
also very sensitive, one of them the doctors called 
entirely diseased, troubled for breath, etc. My 
tonsils eaten out by ulceration, and that caused 
the epiglottis to enlarge about twice the natural 
size; this trouble had reached to the stomach and 
bowels, and often choked me, especially when I 
had the terrible paroxysm in the spine and throat, 
the effects often lasting ten days before I could feel 
very much relief in my spine. My bowels troubled 
me continually, with constipation. I had to be 
lifted in the most careful manner from my bed to 
an easy rocker once a week when able to have my 
bed made, then back again as quick as possible. I 
have not taken any medicine for the six months 



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past, and not anything of any account since you 
first called to see me. 

I enjoy your calls so much, for your strong faith 
encourages mine greatly to have you pray with and 
for me, anointing me with oil in the name of the 
Lord, believing that I may be healed if I will put 
perfect trust and confidence in Him who is able 
and willing to alleviate our sufferings. I did, and 
our prayers were answered in a great measure in 
about an hour after you left. I received strength 
in my spine and throat to be able to speak so 
I could be heard in the adjoining room. Then 
in twenty-four hours I could move my partially 
paralyzed limb, with considerable exertion, off the 
edge of the bed, but remember at that time I had 
not been able for three years to move my limbs of 
any account. 

My second relief was to be able to walk with 
the aid of a cane and some one standing the other 
side of me, from my bed to an easy rocker in the 
middle of the room, which is about eight feet. 
The first time in trying to walk I could not place 
my heel down to the floor without falling back- 
wards on account of the acute pain it caused in 
my spine. I tried to walk on my toes for several 



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weeks so as to try and get my heel down. Then 
with my Heavenly Father's strength I became able 
to turn over in bed easily and look out of the 
window and do considerable crocheting-. I could 
not read very much at this time. The next im- 
provement, I could go from my bed to the next 
room (opposite side), to a lounge, and sit bolstered 
up an hour and a half twice a week with the aid of 
a cane and some one standing back of me to steady 
my spine if I reeled backwards, as I was liable to 
do, as I could not get my heel quite down to the 
floor. Then back to the bed again in the same 
manner. You may think it strange when I tell 
you I could go back to bed even better than I 
went from it. You may ask what was the reason ? 
It was answer to fervent prayer to God while sit- 
ting up. He helped me to lean on Him with 
more confidence, and my lame limb would go down 
to the floor easier. 

The next improvement which God saw best to 
give me was to drop my cane and trust more fully 
in His strength. Now I am able to go into the 
other room alone (some one being near me). The 
Lord said, " As thy days are, so shall thy strength 
be; " and " All thing are possible to him that be- 



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lieveth." These and many others are precious 
promises to me. I am improving every day in 
some respect, but the hot weather does not give 
me quite as much strength as the cooler days. 
My case has changed since there was so much im- 
provement in my lungs, for I used to like the 
warmer days the best, but now the cooler ones are 
preferable. My bowels are in better condition. 
It is as you have told me, that my nerves will be 
the last thing to be healed, for when I become 
stronger my nerves will receive more real strength, 
and at last I hope I shall come off conqueror, with 
the "Divine Power" aiding me. I have not the 
least doubt but that He has something yet in 
store for me to do. My earnest plea is what He 
will have me to do, and that I may have strength 
given me to do it to His honor and glory. God 
does answer prayer in the most wonderful ways. 
He has given us the power to help in this mission- 
ary work, by giving me strength to take my pen- 
cil and write to my friends, or our prayers in 
silent but faithful effort to do His will in every- 
thing as far as He gives us strength. Oh, how 
sure and precious are His promises. 

The last improvement, thus far, I have been 



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permitted with strength to ride out twice, an hour 
at a time. In whatever way the Lord has seen 
best to improve my health, it has seemed to be 
lasting; my limb has not gone back, neither has 
my voice, but is being strengthened continually; 
am now sitting bolstered up one hour and a half, 
to two hours at a time, which is not gaining quite as 
fast as some, but God does not think best that I 
should get right up as He permits others to do. I 
am thankful for a little improvement for the better 
if it does seem slow; there are a great many 
chronic difficulties to contend with; as the doctors 
used to say, your case is a peculiar one; it takes 
time for some to be healed, while others are get- 
ting well in an instant as it were, by the power 
of God and answer to the prayer of faith. It w T as 
a long time before I thought I should have to give 
up to sickness, but when the time came it was 
sudden, and I think I shall be healed sudden at 
last, just as soon as the dear Lord sees best to 
take away all disease and give me entire strength. 
I am waiting His own best time. I am now so I 
can read a little more at a time, and remember what 
I read better than any time during my long illness. 
I consider this a great blessing. It used to be like 



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a hammer beating on my brain to read, or have 
much read to me. I thank you, Mrs. Mix, for the 
many earnest prayers you have offered in my be- 
half, and for the answer God has been so kind 
to give me. My prayer is that you may long 
live to be the instrument of much good in this 
world, through the power of " Our Divine Master." 
I hope the time will soon come when all invalids 
cannot say I am sick, but that God has washed me 
with His blood and made me whole. I think that 
" Each promise is a staff if we have faith to lean 
on it; God is waser than man; let Him rule." To 
Him I give the praise for my restoration to health 
thus far. You may use all or part of this as you 
think best, for the " Glory of God." 

On the 25th day of July, I was able to be car- 
ried in an easy chair by boat and bagg'age car to 
Ocean Grove, and by the blessing of the Lord I 
was soon able to go to Miss Jennie Smith's home 
in Burlington, N. J. This dear sister was healed 
in answer to believing prayer after sixteen years 
of utter helplessness. October 6th I arrived at 
my home in New Haven to the surprise of my 
neighbors and friends, and when Sabbath came I 
walked to church, where I had not been for over 



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eight years, and I can say, let all the earth praise 
the Lord. 

Jennie Smith has been telling the Green street 
Methodist congregation, Philadelphia, that she was 
cured of a chronic spinal disease by a miracle. 
She was bedridden for sixteen years. A few 
months ago, when she was in the Homoeopathic 
Hospital, she asked Dr. John C. Morgan to pray 
with her, as she felt that she was going to sit up. 
He did so, and in a few minutes afterward she sat 
up in her chair. This was after all trials to bolster 
her up by means of pillows and hands had failed. 
From this time she began to have a strong belief 
that she would be able to walk again, and at 
length she appointed a certain time for a miracu- 
lous cure. Some of her friends were invited. To 
others she wrote asking them to offer up specific 
prayer on her behalf on that day. After waiting 
until nearly midnight she asked two persons pres- 
ent to take her by the arms, as she felt that the 
time bad come. They complied, and, with barely any 
effort on their part, she rose to her feet and walked. 
Since that time she has had complete use of her 
limbs. Dr. Morgan declares the truth of her story. 

From your friend, trusting in Jesus, 

M. E. Hall. 



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Damascus, April 27, 1881. 
You wished me to write something concerning' 
my sickness and my recovery by prayer. I will 
try to do so. For a number of years preceding 
my sickness, I seemed to be gradually failing in 
health, each year growing weaker and weaker, 
until April 1st, 1879, I was suddenly prostrated 
with heart disease, the physicians said ; and for 
twenty months I could not stand upon my feet, 
or sit up, and most of the time could not raise my 
head from my pillow. More than half of the time 
I seemed to be hovering .between life and death. 
I suffered as it seems death itself. My nerves 
were so sensitive, that it was almost impossible to 
endure the slightest sound. With my other dis- 
eases I began bloating with dropsy. It soon 
settled round my heart. The water round the 
heart caused those awful sinking spells, that I 
cannot describe, nor do I wish to, for I do 
not like to think of them. I was getting dis- 
couraged, for I knew that I could not live much 
longer, and through all my sickness I had a strong- 
desire to get well, although I did not say much 
about it. Then a friend heard of Mrs. Mix, and 
wrote to her concerning me. She sent her reply 



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to me, saying that she would pray for me on the 
17th of November, and that I must pray for faith 
and strength to be given me, and that I might be 
restored to health. It seemed rather strange to 
me at first, but as I thought more about it, it 
became plainer, and I thought that I would try. 
I commenced praying for faith, and when the hour 
came and my friends arrived, who were to offer up 
prayer in my behalf, I was not excited in the least. 
While they were praying I was alone in my room, 
which was my wish, and when they had ceased 
praying I sat up in bed, something I could not do 
before without great trouble with my heart. 
Then they put me in the rocking-chair, and I sat 
there a few minutes. My friends came in to see 
me sitting up, a sight they never expected to wit- 
ness. While sitting up I requested another 
prayer, which was granted, and we thanked and 
praised the Lord together. I tried sitting up 
every day for a week; then I caught a heavy cold 
which sent the water around my heart again, and 
for three weeks I was very sick. On the 15th 
of December, 1880, Mrs. Mix was praying for a 
neighbor, who had been bedridden for years. I 
knew of it and was praying for him too, though I 



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was feeling very badly myself. I was trying to 
eat a little dinner, but my appetite was so poor 
that I could not eat anything. Suddenly I felt as 
if I could sit up, so they helped me up on the side 
of the bed. Then I wanted to stand on my feet. 
They put me on my feet, and assisted me to 
walk a few steps; then I said, let me go, and 
I walked all round the room. I went out in 
the kitchen, which is quite a distance. I came 
back to my own room and took my singing- 
book and sung piece after piece just as loud and 
clear as I ever sang. Oh, I was so happy, I did 
not know what I said or did. In a few minutes I 
wanted to take a ride. The horse and cutter were 
brought, and I walked out on the porch and down 
the steps to the cutter without much assistance. 
I took a short ride; I did not go to bed again that 
day; I have been gaining ever since; I have been 
to church twice. How good it seemed to be there 
again. The distance to the church is about five 
miles; I did not come back the same day. I ride 
out almost every day. I can walk all round the 
house on the first floor, and have walked a little 
distance on the ground several times. When I 
get very tired my heart troubles me some, but the 



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Lord has done much for me, and can do much 
more. " The Lord is nigh unto all them that call 
upon Him." I have felt the loving presence of 
Jesus more than I ever did before. I will ask you 
to remember me in your faith meetings, that I may 
be entirely restored to health, and that I may trust 
always in Jesus, who has done so much for me. 

L. D. Tyler. 
This lady fully recovered and was married one 
year from the day she was first prayed for. 

Adams Nervine Asylum, 
Jamaica Plain, Mass., August, 1881. 

Mrs. Mix : — For many years I have been an 
invalid; for years together utterly helpless, at 
other times able to walk from room to room, but 
suffered intensely all this time. I came here Janu- 
ary 1st, and have been confined to my bed since. 
Several of the doctors here (there is only one ex- 
ception) think I have incurable spine and other 
diseases, and I am to leave here soon. I can step 
a few steps, and only that. For years I have been 
much interested in "prayer cures," and I have 
been peculiarly led all these years. 

Over a year ago (I had heard indirectly of you 
before) I heard of one who was going to write 



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you to come to their home; then I thought it is 
so near she can come to mine; but they changed 
their minds. I sent to them for your address; 
they thought they had lost it, etc., etc., and in no 
way could I get it. Now I know it was God that 
prevented it, as I was not quite ready for it. 

Month by month, and even hour by hour, I have 
been gradually led up to the present light, to 
understand more fully the life of faith, and gradu- 
ally as I could bear it, letters and leaflets have 
come to me, and four days ago " The Prayer of 
Faith," by Carrie F. Judd, came to me with won- 
derful help and strength, and although I had not 
thought to write you till I left here, God has 
spoken to me to write to you. For some reason 
it has been very much harder even than usual to 
write this; a hand seems holding mine firmly to 
prevent my writing, and still God says, write, and 
I try to obey His will. I shall make no excuses for 
writing, for this resistance is something I do not 
understand. I am surrounded by loving Christian 
people, but none seem to have faith in prayer 
cures, and that has tried my faith. One patient 
who can come into my room occasionally is inter- 
ested with me. She is one of God's noblest 



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women. She feels as do I, that we are so earnest 
that God must make known His will to us in some 
way. Sometimes we cannot meet, but we each 
pray in our own rooms for the other. Now is one 
of those times, but I cannot write you without 
mentioning her name too, Miss Carrie L. French, 
although she does not know. Will you pray for 
us? About acting faith , I would not be allowed 
to do more than at present, unless I say my pain 
is gone, or greatly relieved. I do feel it would be 
to God's glory to cure me suddenly, and show His 
power while I am here; but if He sees not best, or 
if he wishes to cure me gradually (I feel for one 
week I have been gaining and have slept three 
nights in answer to prayer), then His will be done. 
Please pray that our faith fail not, and that we 
may know His will, and if it is for His glory and 
honor we may be cured suddenly. 

One lady who has done a noble missionary 
work, a lovely Christian, is despondent because she 
feels it wrong not to have faith. 

One of the head managers, or rather superiors, 
said to her, " I cannot have faith in these faith 
cures, but if you, Miss Bowen, should be cured 
note, or Miss Cowles, I should have faith." 



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I would love dearly to be cured if it is His icitt, 
but I shall have strength to wait His time, here or 
in Heaven. O, if we only could have strength to 
receive the promises, it seems as if His name would 
be so glorified, especially in Miss Bowen's case. 
O, will you not as soo?i as you receive this pray 
earnestly for its? I think we are ready for the 
blessing so long denied till we were ready. Christ 
is very near us, and I know He told me to write 
to you, although it has been such a difficult task; 
how difficult only He knows who constantly told 
me I was doing His will, although it takes my 
utmost strength, and my back is so weak. 

I beg of you, in the name of Christ, to help us. 

If this reaches you so that you can answer 
before the 17th, or so it can reach here the night 
of the 19th, please direct as the heading of the 
letter. If not please enclose in another envelope, 
directed to Benj. S. Codman, M. D., 13 and 15 
Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., and he will send 
it wherever I am. This is a delightful Institute for 
nervous (not insane) people. Mine is spinal trouble. 

I fear there will be trouble in reading this, but 
that I cannot help, but God can. 

I am one of Christ's little suffering ones. 

Almexa J. Cowles, 



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Boston, September 7, 1881. 
Mrs. Mix : — Your kind letter was received yes- 
terday. The 24th of August I came here from 
the Nervine Asylum for a few days until the 
doctors could complete the arrangements to take 
me to " The Home for Incurables," in Brooklyn. 
I am now admitted, but shall not need to go, as at 
my request Dr. Peck, Miss ITawes, and my kind 
doctor, came to pray with me, August 30th, and I 
was healed by the dear Lord, after being anointed 
in His name by Dr. Peck, and I am gaining in 
strength every day; am dressed all day, and go up 
and down stairs several times in a day. I shall 
probably soon go to my home in or near Amherst, 
Mass. It is indeed a miracle, and I know that 
you will praise the Lord with me for His wonder- 
ful spiritual and physical blessing. Believe me 
very, very grateful for your kind letter. May the 
Lord bless you in the noble work to which He has 
called you. For some reason it still tires me to 
write, and as I am situated cannot conveniently 
write with pen and ink, therefore you will pardon 
this. 

Very respectfully and gratefully, 

Almexa J. Cowles. 



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Erie, 3, 7, 1882. 

Sister Mix : — Beloved in the Lord. It gives 
me pleasure to comply with your request in rela- 
tion to my healing. 

Taught from childhood to believe that the sift of 
healing perished with the close of the Apostolic age, 
I was slow to embrace the teachings of the Bible. 

My malady had been from childhood, very sel- 
dom a day passed that I did not suffer more or 
less with pain across my forehead, often so severe 
as wholly to unfit me for the care of children or 
household duties. In consequence of the intense 
pain my eyesight was impaired, so that I had to 
use glasses at twenty-five years of age. Vomiting 
would sometimes afford me temporary relief, only 
to be followed by more intense suffering ; so the 
years passed by. My husband being a physician, 
administered the usual remedies, indeed, every- 
thing available, with but transient benefit, so I 
made up my mind to endure it to the end of life. 

The gastric disturbance which often attended 
the acute paroxysms of pain were of so intense a 
character that the retching and vomiting would 
only cease when my strength was so far exhausted 
that I could no longer make the effort. 



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All this I suffered for thirty years ! In the fall 
of 1881 my attention was aroused to healing by 
prayer on reading Miss Judd's book. Sometime 
in December, 1881, my husband wrote you, 
requesting you to pray for my healing. I did not 
know he had done so until he received your 
answer, telling us to unite with you in prayer for 
healing on the first Wednesday in January, at 
2.30 o'clock, p.m. We fasted on that day and 
offered earnest prayer for deliverance. 

On the receipt of your letter, as stated above, I 
immediately laid aside all remedial agents, and 
committed my case wholly to God. 

On Wednesday afternoon I realized great relief, 
" I saw men as trees walking," but on Thursday 
morning, blessed be God, the pain was gone, nor 
has it or the gastric disturbance returned. O, I 
have passed into a new world. Draw near, all ye 
of like precious faith, and unite with me in praise 
to my Redeemer, who hath done such great things 
for me. 

My sleep is as peaceful and sweet as a child's, my 
head clear, appetite good, blessed be God, I am 
well. 

Many thanks to you for the interest you have 



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taken in my welfare, the Lord reward you an 
hundred fold, and make you a blessing to many. 
In the faith, respectfully, 

Mrs. Dr. J. A. Bassett. 



No. 99 Goffe Street, 
New Haven, Conn., June 29, 1880. 

This is to certify that I, Leonard S. Turner, was 
taken very ill about November 29th, 1878, with 
hemorrhage of the lungs, and was confined to my 
bed until April, and had had the best of medical 
advice, and those physicians thinking my case a 
hopeless and incurable one, so at the last extremity, 
when breath appeared to be leaving the body, my 
family thought it advisable to consult with Mrs. 
Mix and husband, as she had been so highly recom- 
mended for her wonderful cures, that they sent 
for her, and by their joint supervision, under the 
instrumentality and faith in God, I was able to 
walk about the room in about one-half or three-quar- 
ters of an hour after their entrance. I am now able 
to attend to my business, and have not had to pro- 
cure a physician since, simply by faith in prayer. 

Leonard S. Turner. 
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Killingworth, Conn., December 9, 1881. 
It is with pleasure that I give my testimony in 
regard to faith healing in the year of 1881. My 
eyes began troubling me, when suddenly they 
became so painful I was obliged to give up 
using them entirely. T consulted a skillful oculist. 
He said my eyes were in a very bad condition, 
and if I did not get help there was great danger 
of my getting entirely blind; after examining 
them closely he prescribed for me. I followed his 
directions, suitable glasses were procured, but the 
improvement was very slow, and in the month of 
May they became worse. I again went to the 
oculist to seek advice, hoping to obtain relief; 
after a space of time I felt a slight improve- 
ment, but in the month of June they were much 
worse. After the 20th of June I could not go out 
doors when the sun was shining, the pain in 
them was so severe it was impossible for me to 
bear the sunlight or lamplight. I was obliged to 
keep them bandaged, or stay in a dark room, that 
being the only way of relief from suffering. I 
was fully satisfied that the remedies used were 
not accomplishing the work. I had heard of 
faith cures for some time, and I verily believed in 



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them, because I knew God's promises were true, 
I at once came to the conclusion that my eyes 
could be healed by faith in God. I knew the 
camp-meeting was to be held at Tylerville, the 
20th of August, I was quite sure Mrs. Mix would 
be there; I resolved to see her and be healed. 
On the evening of the 24th I went to the camp 
ground and found Mrs. Mix's tent; after talking 
with her a few minutes I had perfect faith that 
I should be healed. She told me I must lay aside 
all medicine, and my glasses, and trust wholly in 
God's power for healing. I had worn glasses 
constantly for seven months or kept in a dark 
room, as the oculist had directed; unless I had 
believed that God would heal them then and 
there, in answer to prayer, nothing would have 
tempted me to have left off my glasses ; but I 
believed and I took them off once for all. After 
we had prayed together Mrs. Mix anointed my 
eyes, and laid her hands on them in the name of 
Jesus, I left the tent believing I was healed. 
When I returned to a room where there was a 
light I felt none of the former pain in my eyes. 
On the 26th I again attended the camp-meeting, 
a ride of six miles, believing I should receive 



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strength from God to do it, and I did, bless His 
holy name ! On Sunday, the 28th, I went again 
in spite of the intense heat of the sun. I could 
see that I was gaining fast. Sometimes tempta- 
tions came and my eyes felt a little weak. I 
would say : I am healed, and I will act faith; 
and so on I went trusting, I was confident the 
power that removed the pain would help me bear 
the trial. It is now over three months since I was 
healed, and my eyes are gaining rapidly every 
day. I use them several hours a day in sewing 
or reading, and I can do it without fear by sim- 
ply trusting in God. I am more fully persuaded 
than ever before that all things are possible to 
him that belie veth; the light of God's spirit is 
poured into my heart, and I am so happy trusting 
in the Lord. 

It is not for merit that I have done, 
It is not by effort of my own ; 
But through His wondrous grace alone, 
I am kept by the power of God. 

Yours in faith, 

Miss Rose Nettleton. 
I have written this testimony by lamp-light. 



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January 23, 1882. 

Dear Mrs. Mix : — Because I have not been 
miraculously raised from a sickbed^ have so many, 
I have hesitated about giving my testimony to 
the public; but when I look back upon the past 
two years and see how wonderfully my life and 
health have been preserved, in answer to believing 
prayer, I feel that even my experience may be a 
help to some other trembling one. 

I had been an invalid the greater part of eight- 
een years, sometimes shut in my room for months, 
then again strong enough to ride and do some 
light work. Twice during this time I was quite 
well for a year or more; One year and a half 
before I was healed, I was suddenly taken very ill. 
I did not leave the house for nearly a year. I was 
able to ride, do some light work, and attend 
church a few times during the summer, gaining 
very slowly, suffering much from weakness and 
nervous prostration. 

As Mrs. Mix was in town about this time, 
friends advised my seeing her. I called upon her 
the evening of November 1st, with little expec- 
tation of receiving benefit. 

After conversing" with Mrs. Mix a few moments 



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upon the subject of faith and physical healing, 
she asked me to pray that I might be healed. 
I was at once forcibly impressed with the fact 
that I had never offered such a prayer, although 
an invalid so many years. I had asked God for 
patience and submission to His will, never think- 
ing the prayer of faith could heal the sick. 

After we had knelt in prayer Mrs. Mix anointed 
with oil in the name of the Lord, and soon asked if 
I thought I was healed. I acknowledged that I 
felt no change, no relief from pain. Mrs. Mix 
again knelt in prayer, and the power of God then 
possessed my entire being; all pain left me. I 
believed that I was healed, and said to those await- 
ing their turn in an adjoining room as I passed 
out, "I am healed, and in the name of the Lord 
expect to walk to church to-morrow." (I was stop- 
ping at grandparents' about quarter of a mile from 
church.) The change was so great I could but 
praise the Lord, when I awoke to consciousness 
during the night. The next morning I walked to 
church, attended Love Feast at nine o'clock, 
remained through morning service and Sunday 
school, rode two and a half miles to my home. I 
sat up through the afternoon, and at night felt 



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very little fatigue. The following morning some 
of the old pain returned, and as I took my bed 
I began to wonder if I was really healed. I then 
remembered that I was to pray in the name of the 
Lord that this pain might be removed (St. Matt. 
xxi. 22.) While in prayer the same power came 
over me that I experienced during Mrs. Mix's 
prayer in my behalf; all pain left me, and I arose 
praising God. 

I have been tried during the past two years, 
but the Great Physician, in whom I trust, has 
been near at hand, removing pain and renewing 
strength in answer to the prayer of faith imme- 
diately. 

Once during the past two years my faith has 
been somewhat severely tested. I was thrown 
from a sleigh, and my arm was severely bruised. 
In the name of the Lord I anointed the same, leav- 
ing myself in the care of the Great Physician who 
had done so much for me. In a few weeks the 
arm was healed. 

I have not taken a drop of medicine since I was 
healed nor have I needed any. I take long walks, 
work from early morning' till late at night, and 
can endure more than at any time before in my life. 



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I am continually praising the Lord for these 
blessings, both spiritual and physical, that are 
daily received. M. E. Merrill. 



In the year 1880 I was taken very sick with 
what some physician called prostrated nerves; the 
sensation was like worms creeping and stringing 
all through and in my body and limbs. I employed 
four different physicians, Dr. Laurence, Mrs. Dr. 
Sprague, Dr. Vaiile and Dr. Foster, but all to no 
purpose; for nearly six months I suffered in this 
way; the physicians did not exactly agree as to 
what was the trouble; some said it was worms, 
and treated me for that, until, like the woman in 
the gospel, I had spent all my living on physicians, 
and made nothing better, but grew worse; the 
creeping sensation had become so bad, as if every 
nerve had left their proper places if it were possi- 
ble, and had gathered in my stomach and bowels, 
until it seemed as if I should go wild. I could not 
sleep day nor night, but would scream and screech 
like one deranged, and could not possibly help it; 
and then the feeling would be as if they were all 
let loose and running all through my back and 



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limbs. I could not stay alone, and as I was grow- 
ing worse, my husband thought if I could go to 
New Haven that the salt water might do me good; 
so the arrangements were made for me to go, and 
a lady to go with me to take care of me. I went, 
and for a few days I think there was a little 
change for the better, but I soon became worse 
again. I then left there, and came to Meriden to 
a friend of mine, and she soon began to tell me 
about Mrs. Mix coming to Meriden every few 
weeks, and how many people were healed in an- 
swer to her prayers. I had considerable faith in 
being cured in that way, for I knew no medicine 
could ever cure me; so a letter was sent immedi- 
ately to Wolcottville for Mrs. Mix to come to see 
me, but Mr. Mix replied she was not at home, but 
would be in Meriden in a few days. I then was 
bloated terribly; in a few days I heard she was in 
Meriden, and sent for her to come and see me; 
she came, and after talking awhile and showing 
me the simplicity of faith, she then requested me 
to pray, which I did with all the earnestness possi- 
ble; then she offered the prayer of faith, and, 
anointing me with oil, laid her hand upon me in 
the name of the Lord, and I felt the power of 



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God passing all through my body, and through 
faith in the name of Jesus, the nerves quieted 
down, and I arose from my bed as if filled with 
new life, spiritually as well as physically, and 
walked into another room, and that afternoon 
dressed myself and went out on the street; slept 
well that night, and the next day walked on the 
street quite a distance, and sent word to my hus- 
band that I was healed, and in a few days went 
home to Springfield, and have been able since to 
do any amount of work; sometimes when I have 
worked beyond my strength I have felt a little of 
the old sensation, and I would ask the Lord to re- 
move it, and he heard and answered, and I do feel 
to praise God with my whole heart, for he has 
done for me what no physician could do. 

Soul and body both united, 
Thou hast healed the self-same hour ; 
Now can I exclaim delighted, 
Thou hast wrought a perfect cure, 

Mrs. Elizabeth Baptist, 

Springfield, Mass. 



FAITH IN PRAYER. 

Dear Editor: — Please permit me to speak a 
few words to " A Great Sufferer." From my 
present condition of gradual but sure restoration 
to health, I look back on years of pain and weak- 
ness, and my heart is drawn out in sympathy for 
you, dear suffering one. But while you say 
" prayer, joined with skill and experience will ac- 
complish much," God, in His Word, declares, 
" The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the 
Lord shall raise him up." (James v. 15.) 

Xow I pray that you may be led to cast aside all 
reliance on human skill, all unbelieving scruples, 
and cast yourself with entire confidence on God's 
precious promises. By faith we may ask God for 
healing — not if it is His will — but because it is 
His will as clearly expressed in His promises; and 
when He speaks it is not for us to question. Sev- 
eral leading papers, among them, I believe, the 
Witness, have published an account of the mar- 
velous cure of Miss Carrie F. Judd of Buffalo, N. 
Y.j who, it is confidently asserted, was healed in 
answer to the prayers of a colored woman, Mrs. 
Mix. I date my own restoration from the hour 
when I providentially met this same Mrs. Mix. 



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Could I write you a private letter I might refer 
you to many others who have received a like 
blessing. If you will write to Mrs. Edward Mix, 
Wolcottville, Conn., you may learn far more than 
I can tell you. I trust you may yet be blessed 
with health, and, what is far better, a new experi- 
ence of God's love and faithfulness. You will 
need to remember this is not at all a matter of 
feeling. We are to rely wholly on the promise, 
even though we feel worse and everything else 
seems against us. " According to your faith be 
it unto you." 

Oxe Who Fixds the Promise Sure. 



Stewartstown, N. H., September 4, 1881. 
Having seen a piece in the weekly Sun of 
August 3rd, entitled, the sick raised by faith, and 
as I believed in God's promises in answering 
prayer, and as I had suffered very much in the 
past year with kidney trouble, — the physician had 
tried in vain to cure me, but had failed, — I made 
up my mind to send to Mrs. Mix and have her 
pray for me, and write to me and give me what- 
ever advice she thought necessary, and set an 



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especial day and hour that I might unite with her 
in prayer, addressing a throne of mercy; she re- 
plied to my letter; she set the day and hour, and 
our united prayer went up to God, united as the 
prayer of one man; and the answer came with the 
blessing, and I was healed, made every whit 
whole to the glory of God; and from that day 
have been able to work hard all day long, and 
feel as well as ever I felt in all my life. 

Mr. Randall Harriman. 



Dear Afflicted Friends in Jesus: — I have a 
strong desire to testify what the dear Lord has done 
for me, in hopes that it may strengthen some who 
are held by bonds of infirmity as I have been, and 
while they are walking by faith, spiritually, they 
are unable to take one step by faith, physically, even 
with all the precious promises before them. Know- 
ing by sad experience the darkness into which 
Satan is ever ready to lead the children of God, 
having groped in darkness for several years, often 
striving in agony to lay hold on the promise by 
faith for my healing. 

From childhood my body was never very strong, 
and about fifteen years ago, by over fatigue and 



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deep affliction, resulting in brain fever, I became a 
nervous wreck; I was unable to see friends, read or 
write for over two years, then, by accident, I strained 
the broad ligaments on the right side, causingovarian 
hemorrhage, and many times I was very near death. 
During four or five years I was frequently confined 
to the bed for months at a time, yet the presence of 
the spirit gave me such an abounding cheerfulness 
that I was often a wonder to myself and all around 
me, that in the midst of severest suffering I could 
rejoice. I had the counsel of the best physicians; 
they gave (Mark v. 26;) no hope of recovery, I was 
frequently entirely helpless; I was carried about in 
my husband's arms like a child, from bed to bed, and 
from room to room; thus many years of the best of 
my life passed away; I often prayed to die or re- 
cover. Gradually the matter of being healed by 
God's power dawned upon my mind. 

An account of a wonderful cure by faith came 
to notice in a paper. I laid it before the Lord in 
prayer, read and re-read the promises with great 
interest; and during a spell of much suffering, 
while asking to be relieved through faith, it oc- 
curred to me the Lord needed no help in medicine; 
He was able to heal without it, and I asked Him to 



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give me an answer, and soon felt a strange sensa- 
tion passing from my head over my whole body; all 
distress was gone. I thanked Him and went to 
sleep like a tired child; in the morning awoke, 
feeling well, and with little aid arose and walked 
out to breakfast; felt a strange, calm rest in mind, 
and gladly put away my medicine; five happy days 
passed, gaining strength and hope, but just as sud- 
den as a shock another attack of hemorrhage came. 
I fought it in prayer two days, but did not under- 
stand the Lord's dealing, and unable to free myself 
from Satan's grasp, death seemed to stare me in 
the face. At the earnest request of my friends 
I again took medicine; after many weeks of suf- 
fering was able to get up, but the calm rest of 
faith forsook me, yet when looking in God's word 
I was assured that, concerning healing; of soul and 
body, it meant just what it said. 

They were parallel facts. I groped in dark- 
ness, sighing to grasp the promises in faith for the 
healing of my body, having lost confidence in 
earthly skill, which only gave temporary relief. 
I was able to superintend my house part of the 
time, with the greatest care. After nearly eleven 
years spent thus, a testimony of Miss Carrie F. 



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Judd's wonderful faith cure fell into my hands. 
Being unable to sit up, at my request, my hus- 
band gladly wrote to Mrs. Mix, who had prayed 
for her, requesting prayer for me; we received an 
immediate reply, that she would pray for me at a 
set time, also requesting to have all medicine put 
away, which I did, and before the hour of prayer 
I had faith to rise (although I had not been off the 
bed for five days, nor even raised up), and by urg- 
ing, prevailed on friends to bring my clothes, and 
with assistance put them on, that^I might sit up 
during prayer, which the dear Lord answered, and 
gave unusual strength rapidly. But, alas! I had 
not taken my other complaints to the Lord in the 
same faith; they clung still closer than before, till, 
worn out with struggling often in prayer for grace, 
patience, and faith, thus losing much sleep, I felt 
that something else must be done instead of leav- 
ing it with the Lord as I had my soul. I took 
medicine, and, like the children of Israel, wandered 
long because of unbelief. 

A book of faith cures by Dr. Charles Cullis was 
given me, which inspired new hope, inducing me 
to ask an interest in his prayer for my healing, left 
medicine, resolved to trust again in God for re- 



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covery; he kindly replied, setting a time which I 
observed, and was strengthened in faith, able to 
be round the house most of the time. Still feeling 
doubts of full restoration, I wrote Mrs. Mix to ask 
full health for me, and at her appointed time spent 
the afternoon in prayer. All at once every bad 
feeling left, body and soul felt well. I rejoiced and 
thanked God. That night, the first in months, I 
slept soundly, feeling a hundred times refreshed, 
on waking; after three happy days the tempter 
(who well knew my past skepticism) beset me that 
it was my own will power in which I trusted, and 
after listening to his suggestions instead of fleeing 
to Jesus, trusting in Him alone, I fought the 
enemy, and he gained a partial victory; bless the 
Lord, who did not leave me to myself. 

A death in our family changed our plans, giving 
me an opportunity to visit the East, where I had 
another short sickness, and resolved to visit Mrs. 
Mix as soon as able to travel, hoping through her 
prayer of faith to be delivered from the power of 
the evil one, who had held me bound by infirmity 
so many years, not only with the diseases men- 
tioned, but hemorrhoidal difficulty, causing paraly- 
sis of the lower bowel, obliging me to use an 



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enema for every movement with few exceptions 
for fifteen years. 

I stayed several days at her place, holding 
sweet communion, with precious seasons of prayer, 
feeling refreshed and instructed in the company 
of one whom God has so richly blest to the re- 
covery of so many suffering ones by her prayer 
of faith. 

She anointed me according to James v. 14, 15; 
though feeling no change, I was impressed to ex- 
claim, it is done; the night following I was awak- 
ened with a strange sensation, entirely relieving 
my body of all weary aches, leaving me with 
a feeling of health and strength. 

I soon left her place, rejoicing that God had 
blessed me so greatly, and for some days was per- 
mitted to testify to my friends of God's healing 
power, when an unexpected trial suddenly over- 
took and nearly prostrated me. It shook my faith 
because I could not at once lay hold of the prom- 
ises and be free from the result, though never 
desiring to use medicine or any other means. 
Though sometimes cast down with fear and pain, 
I with God's help wait with full confidence in His 
word, enjoying constantly the influence of His 



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spirit, and have no disposition to return to medi- 
cine. 

Oh, that I could speak loud enough for all 
weary, sick, struggling ones to hear, and take 
warning from my sad experience, and never let 
go the precious promises which were given for our 
help and shield in temptations as well as in victory. 

About two years ago, during the time I was 
asking the Lord to heal me, a marvelous healing 
recorded in faith cures, impressed me that my 
husband's eye, with which he never saw light, could 
receive sight; he was incredulous, but I was led to 
pray for an evidence to be given him that God was 
able and willing to answer the prayer of faith. 
I requested the believing friends and Mrs. Mix 
to join me, feeling thus directed by the spirit. 
And to our joy the dear Lord answered us 
with an evidence of His willingness, by giving 
him partial sight, unexpectedly and to his great 
joy, and it remains to him very useful. To God 
be all the glory. 

Mrs. Geo. P. Guild, 

Portage, Wis. 



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4404 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, Pa., 
Mrs. Edward Mix. March 31, 1882. 

My Dear Sister in Christ: — It certainly affords 
me great pleasure to comply with the request in 
your letter of the 13th inst., to write in detail my 
experience in faith healing as relates to myself, 
and also to members of my own family, to be 
incorporated in the book you purpose publishing. 
Trusting that the same may be to the honor and 
glory of God, and that others who are afflicted, 
and who may read what I may write, may by my 
experience take courage, and likewise resort to 
the same unfailing source for relief from physical 
ailments. 

My letter to you of last December was written 
under great physical suffering, at which time I 
requested your prayers, and consequently my 
experience was not nearly so full, nor written in a 
style suitable for the public eye. While I again 
go over the whole ground, may the Holy Spirit 
direct, is my prayer. 

For 13 years (October 15, 1881) I have been 
a sufferer from that distressing disease, the asthma. 
A physician myself, in active practice for twenty- 
five years, you may rest assured that I have tried 



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about every known remedy to effect a cure, but 
without success. All have proved to be only 
palliatives. Treatment, it is true, would give 
great relief, but the symptoms would again and 
again recur with increased intensity, until ex- 
hausted nature would be ready to sink. It is not 
my intention, nor is it the object of this paper, to 
write an essay on the subject of asthma; but how 
intensely I suffered will be sufficiently elucidated 
during the course of my narrative. 

About a year and a half ago (keep in mind the 
date from which I write, October, 1881,) my mind 
was exercised in regard to faith healing, and at that 
time I committed my case to the Lord's hands. 
But, alas ! and alas ! I fell at the first onset with 
the enemy of souls, and tvhe?i the trial of faith 
began, and my old distressing symptoms returned 
with increased severity, I virtually dismissed the 
Lord, my physician, from the case by resorting again 
to the use of medicines for relief. I immediately 
fell into condemnation and darkness. My readers 
can readily sympathize with me in my downfall, 
when they for a moment reflect how strong the 
temptation to an experienced physician would be 
to resort to those means which his knowledge in 



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the use of remedies would lead him to adopt for 
speedy relief. 

On the 15th day of October, 1881, I reviewed 
the battle-ground, and the scene of my disgraceful 
defeat, and being weaker and worse physically 
than ever before, I concluded to again ask the 
Lord to undertake my case. My attention had 
been recalled to the subject by my excellent 
Christian brother, John A. Best, Esq., of Wash- 
ington, Pa., who advised me to send for and read 
Miss Carrie Judd's little book, " The Prayer of 
Faith." I procured a copy, and had the book 
several weeks before I found time to read it. - 

At the above-mentioned time, all my family 
being away at our summer cottage on the Valley 
Camp Ground, sixteen miles distant from the city, 
I availed myself of the opportunity and quietude 
to talk with God and not be disturbed. 

On that day I solemnly resolved to throw all 
medicines to the bats and owls, and never touch 
them again so far as myself individually was con- 
cerned. 

Being in doubt, in view of my former faithless- 
ness, whether God would again undertake my 
case, I had a preliminary interview with Him that 



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evening, and with tears in my eyes, and a copy of 
His word in my hands, I asked Him to talk to me 
through His word, and indicate to me His mind, 
and so direct me that I could not mistake the 
language, at the same time promising Him that if 
He would have mercy upon and heal me, I would 
trust Him although He should slay me. Imme- 
diately upon opening the Book my eyes fell upon 
this passage in Jer. xxxi. 20, " Is Ephraim my 
dear son ? is he a pleasant child ? for since I spake 
against him I do earnestly remember him still : 
therefore my bowels are troubled for him ; I will 
surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord" 
Could any one possibly misunderstand such lan- 
guage ? Nay, verily. At once it dissipated my 
fears, filled my heart with hope and gratitude, 
and gave me courage to come boldly to a throne of 
grace and ask largely. 

Before committing my case fully to the Lord, I 
desired to have my faith strengthened, and to this 
end I postponed the matter until I could read 
Carrie Judd's little book, which was indeed to my 
soul "as water to the thirsty ground." 

The 15th of October, the day I abjured all medi- 
cines, was Saturday. That morning the family all 



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departed for Valley Gamp to be absent three days. 
That night I had the preliminary interview with 
the Lord, and read a portion of Miss Judd's book. 
On Sunday night I read portions of the Word and 
the remainder of Miss Judd's book, sitting up as 
late as 2 o'clock Monday morning. At that hour 
I solemnly dedicated myself to the Lord, and pro- 
mised Father, that I would be walling to be any- 
thing or nothing, and follow Him wheresoever He 
might lead, if He would heal my body of all its 
complicated diseases, and fill me with His Holy 
Spirit. I asked in the name of the Lord, and with 
faith, that He would answer my prayer, although I 
did not feel that the work was an instantaneous one. 
I w r as suffering considerably at the time. I rested 
comparatively well during the remainder of the 
night, and the struggle and trial of faith did not 
bes;in until the mornino* 

I give these details that the reader may the 
better comprehend the situation and understand 
God's dealings with me. 

Now observe how soon, and in what manner my 
trial of faith began. Only six hours after my prom- 
ise made to the Lord, to wit, at 8 o'clock Monday 
morning, the postman brought me a letter from 



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one who for years had been fully conversant with 
my dreadful periodical asthmatic attacks. In that 
letter was written a recipe reputed to be, u a 
radical cure for asthma I '" and which the writer 
importunately urged me to try. By this time I 
was suffering greatly; relief was what I wanted. 
Here then was a first-class temptation, for the 
remedy was simple, and " sure to give prompt 
relief and finally effect a radical cure ! " See how 
soon the opposing forces began their work. That 
letter was written as soon as I had determined to 
throw away all medicine, and reached me six 
hours after my consecration. The temptation was 
of such character that, so soon as I could become 
disengaged from professional services in the office, 
I determined to lay the matter before the Lord, 
and ask for guidance and strength. Retiring to 
my chamber, I did so, and was immediately di- 
rected in His Word to Isa. xii. 2, "Behold God is 
my salvation ; I will trust and not be afraid ; for 
the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song ; 
He also is become my salvation." 

Surely the Lord was talking directly to me, for 
no language could have been more pertinent and 
pointed. Yes, God and not " asthma cures," was 



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to be my salvation; and that " cure for asthma " at 
once fell so far below par as never to be brought 
to mind again, as far as its use was concerned. 

In this connection I desire to show how wonder- 
fully God in His merciful kindness has dealt with 
me and mine. 

Ten hours after my own consecration to God 
and His service wholly, He laid His loving hand 
upon my beloved wife, in order, no doubt, to bring 
her also up to the same higher plane of Christian 
perfection. While at the camp ground our 
youngest son, in his sixth year, accidentally flirted 
concentrated lye into both her eyes, burning them 
terribly. She was led that evening (Monday) from 
the railroad station to our home, only a short dis- 
tance, with bandaged eyes, and was apparently 
blind. The lids of both eyes were swollen to their 
fullest extent, and I could only see the eye-balls 
by forcibly opening the eyelids. I was alarmed 
at their condition, for not only were the inside of 
the lids fearfully burned, but the ball of her left 
eye was also most dangerously involved. The 
prognosis was unfavorable, for under the best 
medical treatment the damage to the eyes would 
require weeks, if not months, for repair, with the 



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chance that the vision of the left eye would be 
seriously impaired, if not totally destroyed. Com- 
prehending the situation at the time of the acci- 
dent, my wife immediately gave herself into the 
Lord's hands, being willing rather to enter the 
kingdom blind, if it was His will, than not go 
in at all. Not knowing this (for she did not tell 
me until the next day nor did I till then tell her 
what I had done) I felt it my duty to put her under 
treatment, which I did, but discontinued it entirely 
when I subsequently learned what she had done. 

My own symptoms continuing to grow worse, I 
thought I would write to Brother Best, at Wash- 
ington, to come over and anoint us both with oil, 
in the name of the Lord, and so comply with the 
requirement in James v. 14. 

I was suffering to such extent on that Tuesday 
afternoon, that the least attempt to move brought 
on such a paroxysm of asthma as to almost suffo- 
cate me. That night I could not get upstairs, but 
slept, or rather dozed, in a large rocking-chair, for 
it was impossible to sleep. However, the Lord 
was going to give me a foretaste of what He 
intended to do. A free expectoration set in and 
continued the whole night, so that by breakfast 



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time my lungs were so thoroughly cleared out that 
I was enabled to run and jump upstairs three 
steps at a leap, and I felt as well as if I had never 
had asthma a moment in my life. 

Brother Best responded promptly by telegram 
that he would come, and a few hours later he 
arrived. But jT(the supposed sick man whom he 
expected to see) was leaping as an hart, and prais- 
ing God for what He had done for me. He 
anointed us both in the name of the Lord, and we 
had a glorious season of refreshing from the pres- 
ence of the Holy Spirit. Wife's eyes healed as if 
by magic; destroyed tissues were restored and 
completely healed in a few days' time; and in a 
week's time she was able to perform her usual 
household duties. 

Nothing but the power of God could have 
accomplished such a work in so short a time. 
While her eyes were healing, at one time she 
feared that entropium (a turning inwards of the 
eyelids, a very usual occurrence after such an 
injury) would ensue. I told her. to dismiss her 
fears, for when the Lord undertook to cure a per- 
son He never made a botch of it. It is needless 
to say that there was no entropium. 



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As to my own case, I felt so well I began to 
tell it everywhere what great things the Lord had 
done for me. But in a little while the struggle 
ao-ain commenced, and was continued with some 
variableness, now better, then much worse, and 
suffering as severely as ever. It was impossible to 
lie in the recumbent position, and night after night 
I was compelled to sit in a rocking-chair, or else be 
propped up in bed. I could not understand why 
my symptoms should recur, for I had trusted the 
Lord fully, and expected complete immunity from 
former suffering. I inquired of the Lord what it 
meant, and was directed to the twenty-fifth verse 
of the first chapter of Isaiah, " And I will turn my 
hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross 
and take away all thy tin" I concluded that the 
Lord intended that the trial of my faith should 
continue. 

On another occasion, my sufferings still being 
prolonged, I communed with God, and told Him 
I feared that I would be brought to shame and 
confusion of face, since I had been telling it to 
many that God had healed me. Oh, I was terribly 
afraid and fearfulty exercised in mind in regard to 
this matter. But my fears were soon quieted, for 



94: 

I was immediately directed to Isaiah liv. 4-11, 
" Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed : 
neither be thou confounded ; for thou shalt not be 
put to shame" etc. Turn to the chapter and read 
down to the eleventh verse. 

About the middle of November I was so bad I 
could not get upstairs, and had to again be 
propped up in a rocking-chair. I was suffering 
most intensely, and the sense of suffocation was 
so great, it seemed as if the next succeeding 
paroxysm would be my last. Oh, what a tempta- 
tion it was at such times to resort to medicines for 
relief! Just within reach was a remedy which hun- 
dreds of times had given me ready relief in less 
than five minutes. In my agony, with my Bible 
on my lap, I cried, " Lord! hast thou nothing 
comforting for me in this my hour of distress ? 
Speak to me out of thy word." The book opened 
to Psalm xlvi. 1-3; 10-11: " God is our refuge 
and strength, a very .present help in trouble. 
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be 
removed, and though the mountains be carried 
into the midst of the sea; though the waters 
thereof roar and be troubled, though the moun- 
tains shake with the swelling thereof, Selah." 



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# * * * « g e s tiH ? and know that I am 
God; I will be exalted among the heathen, I will 
be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is 
with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge." Hand- 
ing the Bible to my wife — who had just then come 
to see whether I needed anything — I told her to 
read that aloud, for I could not for shortness of 
breath. As she read, my heart overflowed with 
gratitude to God as I thought of His great sympa- 
thy for me under the chastening rod. Said I to 
her, " You don't know, my dear, how much good 
that does me! It is better to me than food to a 
hungry man! " And the dear, good woman, imme- 
diately replied — quoting the same language used 
by the Saviour in his temptation when He thwarted 
Satan — " Don't you remember, ' It is written, man 
shall not live by bread alone, but by every word 
that proceedeth out of the mouth of God ? ' " On 
that memorable night, whenever a paroxysm of 
cou^-hino; with its attendant suffocation recurred — 
which it did at short intervals — I just claimed 
that promise and cried, " A very present help^ 
Lord! " and immediately the suffocation would be 
either greatly mitigated or cease altogether. 

And so the trial continued. Remember that 



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during this time I was so reduced in strength I 
could scarcely walk. For weeks I at best could 
obtain daily but two or three hours only of 
broken sleep on account of my distressing cough, 
due to chronic bronchitis, on which the asthma 
depended. The slightest movement, even the mo- 
tion of my jaws in masticating my food, or the 
attempt to swallow any liquids, created the great- 
est distress. In my complaints the pointings from 
God's words were — " Trust, trust, trust ! " For 
instance, Psalm xxx. 1, 2: "I will extol thee, O 
Lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not 
made my foes to rejoice over me. O Lord, my 
God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me." 
Also Psalm xxi. 1 : "In thee, O Lord, do I put 
my trust; let me never be ashamed; deliver me 
in thy righteousness." Also Psalm xl. 1-5: "I 
waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined 
unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up 
also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, 
and set my feet upon a rock, and established my 
goings. And He hath put a new song in my 
mouth, even praise unto our God; many shall see 
it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. Blessed 
is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and 



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respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to 
lies." 

It seemed, however, that my sufferings were as 
great as ever, and I said to my wife, " It is possi- 
ble that the Lord intends to slay me, sure enough." 
At my consecration I promised that though He 
slay me, yet would I trust in Him; and so told 
wife that, " if the worst came to the worst, and 
the Lord wished me to die, I was willing to die; 
but I wanted no physicians to be sent for, for 
medicine I would not take! " About this time, 
during one of my usual evening interviews with 
the Lord, after the family had retired to rest, I 
made my wants known, and requested an answer 
in the usual way, viz., from His word. Immedi- 
ately the Book opened at Hosea xi., and my eye 
rested upon the ninth verse of that chapter: "I 
will not execute the fierceness of mine anger. I 
will not return to destroy Ephraim;" (the same 
Ephraim, mark, which was mentioned in my pre- 
liminary interview at the beginning and to which 
I was directed in Jer. xxxi. 20, concerning whom it 
was declared — "Is Ephraim, my dear son ? * * * 
I will surely have mercy upon him saith the Lord,") 
u for I am God and not man; the Holy One in the 
4 



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midst of thee." I inferred from this, and rightly 
too, that henceforth my sufferings would be miti- 
gated. And so it proved. There was an improve- 
ment of perhaps fifty per cent. Strength began 
to slowly increase, but at times I felt badly 
enough. 

But the climax was attained on the night of 
December 1st. The labor of the day, in my en- 
feebled condition, told upon me. In the evening, 
the family having retired for the night, I sat in a 
rocking-chair being pained from head to foot. As 
I sat there, I felt for the first time like giving up 
the struggle. Said I, " Lord, I feel almost dis- 
couraged. Here I am racked with pain, and seem- 
ingly not a whit better than I was six weeks ago. 
Hast thou any word of comfort for me to-night ? 
Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth." The Book 
opened at Isaiah xli., and my eyes rested upon the 
tenth verse of that chapter. "Fear thou not; for 
I am with thee; be not dismayed; for I am thy 
God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; 
yea, I will UPHOLD thee with the right hand of 
my righteousness" 

The following three verses, eleventh to thir- 
teenth, inclusive, of same chapter, read as follows: 



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" Behold, all they that were incensed against thee 
shall be ashamed and confounded; they shall be as 
nothing; and they that strive with thee shall per- 
ish. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find 
them, even them that contended with thee; they 
that war against thee shall be as nothing and as a 
thing of naught. For I the Lord thy God will 
hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, " Fear not; 
I will help thee." Surely here was encouragement 
sufficient for the most disheartened, and it renewed 
my confidence in God. The night was most dis- 
tressing, for my sufferings were greatly intensified 
from what they had been. In the morning, being 
entirely exhausted and scarcely able to move, I 
determined to do that which I had often before 
thought of doing: namely, to write to Mrs. Mix 
and request her to make me a subject of prayer. 
The questions which agitated me most were, are 
my sufferings prolonged, and am I not entirely 
healed because God wishes to try my faith still 
more ? Or is the difficulty on account of unbelief 
on my part ? On the second of December, then, I 
wrote to Mrs. Mix and requested her prayers, hav- 
ing stated my case as concisely as my feeble physi- 
cal condition would permit. Her reply did not 



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reach me until December 17th, but it was full of 
encouragement, and fully appreciated. The even- 
ing of the day her letter yas received was the 
time appointed to make me a subject of prayer. 
In just five days from the time I wrote to her, the 
Lord in a wonderful manner made good His prom- 
ise to help and strengthen me. If I had been de- 
pending on my own strength in anywise, the last 
prop was knocked from under me, and, like Jonah, 
I was cast overboard. If some one had told me 
on the sixth of December, that I was able to make 
my professional rounds without the aid of my 
horse and buggy, I would have deemed him a mad- 
man. On the morning of the seventh of Decem- 
ber, the day I entered upon the thirty-eighth year 
of my Christian life, just as we were about to 
kneel in family worship, my colored man-servant 
announced that " Kitty " (my horse) " is down and 
cannot get up. She seems to be paralyzed." I 
replied that if Kitty is going to die, the Lord 
wants me to walk! After worship, a glance at 
the faithful old beast assured me that she could 
not live many hours. She died in o-reat affony the 
same day. 

But mark the result of this chastening. Most 



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remarkable strength was immediately imparted to 
me, and I felt like Samson when he had his arms 
around the pillars of the Philistine temple at 
Gaza! All symptoms of asthma vanished from that 
time like mists before the morning sun. I made 
all my calls on foot, and could walk up any of the 
hills surrounding us, rapidly and without fatigue. 
On the twentieth of December I wrote to Mrs. 
Mix as follows: 

" Since the seventh inst., I have had no asthma 
and am gaining strength every day; and I know 
that the chronic inflammation of the bronchial 
tubes, upon which the asthma depends, will also 
in due time pass away. I can now walk rapidly 
anywhere without a particle of wheezing. Surely 
' God is our refuge and strength,' and I praise 
His name daily for His wonderful love to me so 
visibly manifested. Yesterday morning, having 
forgotten my spectacle-case, which was upstairs, I 
ran up the stairs so rapidly that our daughter 
Clara remarked to her ma, ' Here comes Sher- 
man ' (our eldest son whose movements are always 
rapid), and both were astonished when they dis- 
covered their mistake. Wife remarked, ' Why, 
you are indeed renewing your youth and strength." 



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Daughter remarked also, ' I guess papa will soon 
be able to see well enough without glasses.' I 
seem to be a marvel to my friends who knew my 
former condition, and I know that I shall not be 
brought to shame, neither shall I be confounded; 
for I am regaining my health rapidly, and the 
w~ork will not cease until it is thoroughly com- 
pleted. I have taken — indeed, had already taken 
— the position you suggested, and I am constantly 
receiving from the hands of the Lord. All glory 
to His excellent name! " 

Nor have myself and wife alone been witnesses 
of God's power to heal in answer to prayer. We 
have learned to entrust our children also to His 
all-powerful hands. We have realized that the 
prayer of faith will be honored; — has been hon- 
ored in the recovery of several of our children 
from serious illness. Our youngest son, five years 
old, was taken dangerously ill with acute bronchitis 
in November last, and all his symptoms seemed 
alarming. Here, then, was a tremendous trial of 
our faith. Could we, after having entrusted our 
cases to Father's hands, likewise entrust that of 
our child ? I very quickly determined what I would 
do, but I wished to ascertain the mind of each 



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member of the household in regard to the matter. 
I assembled the family at the hour of evening 
worship. There, said I, on the bed before us, lies 
our darling son, your dear little brother, whom 
you see, by his flushed face and rapid breathing, 
and hio'h fever, has a disease which will soon burn 
out his life unless quickly arrested. His tempera- 
ture at the time was about 105°, an alarming alti- 
tude. Beginning with our eldest son, I asked 
him what he thought we ought to do in the case. 
There could be no question in regard to its gravity. 
Should I put him under treatment, or should we 
give him into the hands of the Lord ? In other 
words, had we better trust to man or to God ? 
He commenced to argue the case, and thought that 
God had given us medicine, and expected us to use 
it, and thus make use of the means in our own 
hands. He has also declared that if we do not 
sow in seed-time neither could we expect to reap 
in harvest. But that is not a parallel case, I 
replied, for He has a more excellent way for His 
believing children. He finally concluded it was 
best to entrust him to the Lord. In like manner 
each one was interrogated, and all were unanimous 
for the Lord. After reading- selected portions of 



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the word pertaining to faith-healing, we knelt in 
prayer, and anointed him with oil. He was im- 
mediately healed, for before midnight his skin 
became cool, his short breathing ceased, and the 
next morning he was practically well. The same 
child in the month of the preceding July was 
brought to the verge of the grave by the same 
disease, but recovered only by the most energetic 
treatment. That which before required over two 
weeks of treatment to be removed, at the fiat of 
Jehovah was instantly cured. Surely this is a 
more excellent way. 

Looking at these cures with the eye of a physi- 
cian, the work seems to progress in a natural way 
as if medicines were successfully used, but it is 
accomplished much more rapidly. The Master 
mind comprehends the whole cause of the diffi- 
culty, faith grasps the promise — " Ask and you 
shall receive," — " Believe and it shall be done," 
and immediately the believer is made whole. 

O, most glorious Father, whose mercy endureth 
forever; who forgiveth all our iniquities, who 
healeth all our diseases; may all who read these 
experiences be enabled to trust thee implicitly for 
full salvation from all their ailments, and by so 



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trusting be brought into that intimate communion 
with thee, and be so filled with the Holy Spirit, 
that mortality may be swallowed up in life. Amen. 
Charles Wesley Buylnger, M. D. 



South Noewalk, Conn., February 23, 1880. 
Mrs. Mix. 

My Dear Madame : — I made mention in my 
last letter that you would hear from me again, 
after requesting your prayer for me when in great 
trouble. I am happy to say that our prayers have 
been answered, so much so, I feel very grateful to 
my Heavenly Father and you assisting me, al- 
though not entirely relieved, but so I can attend 
to my business, w T ith bright prospects ahead. This 
day the answer came. 

Praise the name of the Lord, a grateful heart. 
Yours in Christian love, 

C. B. D'Artois. 



Eagle Harbor, Orleans Co., March 1, 1882. 

My Dear Sister in Christ: My experience of 

healing I am very glad to give, and to have it known 

to all the world for the glory of God. My heart is 

so full of joy and praise to God, that I hardly know 



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how and where to begin, for the half can never be 
told what God has done for me. I never had been 
well since I could remember. I did not know 
what it was to be without a headache. I had 
falling of the uterus for years, and my back pained 
me nearly all the time. I have had the piles for 
fourteen years, and had employed skillful physi- 
cians; some had helped me a little while I was 
taking the medicine, but as soon as I stopped I 
was as bad as ever. Last October I went to my 
friends in Warsaw, visiting and I caught a very 
bad cold which caused bronchitis, and was very 
bad with it until the day I was healed in answer to 
prayer. There was a colored lady, Mrs. Edward 
Mix, from Connecticut, who was sent for to come 
to our place, Eagle Harbor, and I heard that she 
prayed with the sick, and if they had faith they were 
healed of their diseases; so I went to see her the 
10th of January, 1882. I gave up all medicine 
and took the Lord for my physician; we had a 
season of prayer together, following out the direc- 
tions of James v., by the anointing and laying 
on of hands, and I can say, to the praise of God, 
I was healed; my head, praise the Lord, is well. 
I have no more of those dreadful headaches, the 



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weakness of the body is made strong; back-aches 
and piles and all are well; glory to God I am 
every whit whole. At first temptation came in 
form of old symptoms, and to appearances there 
was need of medicine; the tempter began an argu- 
ment with me, saying, I would have to go back to 
medicine; but I went direct to God for help, for I 
knew I was healed, and it was nothing but the 
temptation; the Lord heard and answered, and re- 
moved the temptation, and I can say, to the praise 
of God, I am healed, I am healed, and I have great 
faith in fasting and prayer. 0, what a glorious 
Saviour we have; yes, our God is mighty to save. 
"When we give up all medicine and trust God 
wholly, he never will disappoint us; and I can say, 
praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all His 
benefits who forgiveth all our iniquities and heal- 
eth all our diseases. Praise his name. 
From your sister in faith, 

Mrs. Isaac Albertson. 



ARE THEY r MIRACLES? 
Mrs*. Mix: — I wish to add my testimony with 
others and thank God for what He has done for 
me in answer to your prayer of faith. I had been 



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confined to my bed three months with enlarge- 
ment of the spleen, inflammation of the bowels 
and falling of the uterus. I had been treated by 
Drs. Sanford and Shepherd, but after using power- 
ful remedies they gave me up to die. I heard of 
Mrs. Mix through the Sunday Register ', of some 
wonderful cures through faith and prayer; my 
friends prevailed upon me to send for her. I had 
but little faith, but knew that God was able to 
do all things; accordingly she was sent for; she 
arrived about ten minutes of seven; it was my 
poorest day. I was so sick I could not raise my 
head from my pillow. I could hardly breathe; my 
stomach and bow T els were terribly bloated. I could 
only lie on my back; my sufferings were great; my 
groans annoyed the people in the rooms below, 
which was a store; so much so, they w^ould leave 
before finishing their trading. The inflammation 
was so great I could scarcely bear the slightest 
step across the room or a jar against my bed; my 
hands were like marble, and as I looked at them 
would think they would soon be cold in death, as 
this was the day the physician said I w r ould die; at 
five minutes before seven o'clock she invited all to 
leave the room so there should be no excitement. 



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She asked me even in that critical hour could I 
pray and believe God would raise me up from 
that bed of death. I told her I knew God was able 
to do all things; my faith was small, but I would 
do the best I could. I then began to pray with 
all the faith I could exercise; she then knelt by the 
bedside and began to pray; it was a very simple 
prayer; she asked God to remove the pains and 
all inflammation; her prayer was as a child asking 
its parent for a piece of bread and butter; she 
anointed my bowels with oil in the name of the 
Lord; then placed her hand upon them, and also 
upon my heart, beseeching Him to make them all 
right; she directed my mind to the great Physi- 
cian that could heal both soul and body. I began 
to have a little more faith, and as she drew her 
hand over my bloated body I felt the swelling- 
going down. I then laid my hand on my bowels 
to see if it was really so, and found it to be true; 
she then bade me in the name of the Lord to rise up 
and walk; though all pain and disease was gone, 
yet I was very weak, but I asked God for strength, 
and I began to walk across the room and back to 
my bed; she then asked for my clothes, and by 
faith I was dressed ; she then asked me if my faith 



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was sufficient to walk out into the kitchen. I told 
her yes; she asked God to give me strength; she 
opened my room door and I started, praising God 
every step of the way; my two sisters and their 
husbands were there. One sister was so overcome 
that she fainted, and they laid her on the lounge; 
my other sister began to cry for joy; my husband 
began to shout for joy; my two brothers began to 
sing " She only touched the hem of His garment," 
and strength was given to me to join them in 
singing. O, praise the Lord ! what a glorious 
change; raised from the gates of death to life and 
health. I am able to do my housework, and I 
praise God for it. To Him be all the glory. 
Mrs. Herbert Hall, 
West Haven, Conn. 



To the Editor of the Journal and Courier : 
A communication in your issue of Monday, the 
17th inst., entitled "Miracles," and signed "W," 
in reference to some very remarkable cures lately 
effected by the agency of Mrs. Mix of Wolcott- 
ville, calls for a few facts which I would like to 
furnish. This communication is not written in 
the interest, nor by the desire of any party or par- 



Ill 

ties, but simply as a matter of pure justice, and 
the furtherance of the truth. Of the cases alluded 
to I know the fact of but one. 

I became acquainted with Mrs. Herbert Hall 
of West Haven, as the pastor of her family, in the 
spring of 1878. Early in the following summer 
she was prostrated by illness from which she 
suffered, and continuously, occasionally improving 
only to relapse into a worse condition; during this 
time she received proper medical attention from 
Dr. Sanford and Dr. Shepherd of this place; my 
pastoral calls brought me into intimate acquain- 
tanceship with her physical condition, of the real- 
ity of her sufferings, her debility, and the obstinate 
nature of the complete disorders under which she 
was laboring. I had not only the most palpable 
proof, but from the lips of her physician learned 
the same; that there was no room for deception 
nor motive (nor do I believe she is capable of so 
doing), was to me very clear. Mrs. Mix was to 
the family an unknown power until two or three 
weeks before her cure. Dr. Sanford of New Haven 
took charge of the case in the early part of last 
winter, and after a critical examination — as Dr. 
Shepherd informed me, thought relief possible. 



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A few weeks' experiment proved utterly unavail- 
ing, and the case was given into Dr. Shepherd's 
hands again as hopeless; the only way of relief 
seemed by death. 

In this condition Mrs. Hall continued, gradually 
growing worse. On the evening when relief came, 
I made her a pastoral call about six o'clock in the 
afternoon. The day had been one of intense 
suffering, her paroxysms frequent, forcing from 
the patient pitiable expressions of severe pain; 
these at the time of my visit had given way to a 
fitful and uneasy slumber; it was evident the 
angel of relief was not far distant. At about eight 
o'clock that evening when conducting a religious 
service in my church, Mr. Hall, her husband, came 
in and surprised me and all present, by saying 
that Mrs. Hall was at that moment up, dressed, and 
sitting by the kitchen fire, a well woman, only 
weak. The next day I called and found her 
astonishingly restored, her appearance improved, 
her pains gone, all the old disease seemingly re- 
moved, only weakness, which was aggravated by 
the calling of numberless people, drawn by the 
rumor of the event. I have visited her since 
almost every day; the improvement is marked, and 



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of the most satisfactory character. She is now 
able to be at her family work all day, and gives no 
other indication than of a perfect cure. 

Mrs. Hall is' willing to tell any honest inquirer 
the story, which she does in the most simple and 
frank manner. Her physician, who has visited her 
since, considers her cure remarkable. I have no 
disposition to philosophize or propose theories; 
the facts are all I desire now. The illness and 
sudden recovery of Mrs. Herbert Hall are as 
well attested by me as any facts of my varied 
ministerial life of over thirty-five years. 

A. H. Mead, 
Pastor Methodist E. Church, 

West Haven. 



Fordham, New York, September 20. 
Mrs. Mix: — This is to certify that after a severe 
illness of seventeen months of complicated dis- 
eases, of which time I was confined to my bed. I 
had employed several physicians. I was told by 
one that I had enlargement of the liver, and the 
uterus was down so that it was nearly exposed to 
view. I had bladder difficulties, spine very weak, 
spleen more or less affected, bowels in a torpid 



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condition, inward ulcerations from which I suffered 
greatly. I became discouraged and thought many 
times it was impossible for me to ever get well. I 
had heard of Mrs. Mix and I sent for her; my faith 
was not very strong at first, but still I did believe 
in answers to the prayer of faith. Mrs. Mix came, 
and after talking awhile with me, hope was in- 
spired, faith began to take a firmer grasp, I felt 
that I could say, Lord, I do believe. We then 
united in prayer, Mrs. Mix anointing me with oil 
in the name of the Lord, asking Him to give me 
strength to rise up and walk; strength came in 
answer to prayer and the laying on of hands, and 
to-day I praise God for the good degree of health 
I enjoy. 

Yours in the faith, 

Mrs. J. D. Clute. 



CAN THE BLIND RECEIVE THEIR SIGHT ? 

In 1868 I noticed my eye was failing me; it 
kept growing gradually worse. In 1872 I was 
advised to use eye-glasses by one of the best 
physicians of our city. But soon I found I was 
what was called color blind; printing or pencil 
marks seemed almost colorless. The second of 



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June, 1879, I saw Mrs. Mix, and after conversing 
awhile with her, faith began to be inspired in my 
heart. I began to see that nothing was impossi- 
ble with God, and that all things were possible to 
him that believeth. We then had a season of 
prayer, and Mrs. Mix anointed my eyes with oil in 
the name of the Lord; then, laying her hands upon 
them in the name of the Lord, there was a change 
in my eyesight immediately, but it was not per- 
fect, but has been gradually improving ever since. 
I can read two or three chapters in the Bible 
without stopping to rest my eyes and without the 
aid of glasses; I do not have to use them at all. 
I believe my sight will soon be perfect. 

Yours, trusting in Jesus, 

Me. B. 



Meriden, Conn., October 10, 1880. 
Dear Sister Mix: — I am very happy to in- 
form you that your prayers have been answered in 
my behalf, for which I thank God through our 
Saviour Jesus Christ; He has made me every whit 
whole. I have been sick for about one year, under 
the Doctor's care, still I was getting worse, and 
I was wasted to skin and bones. I was not ex- 



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pected to live. We heard that you had faith in 
prayer for the sick, and that many were cured by 
your prayers. So father wrote to you to pray for 
me; and at the time you said you would pray for 
me, we prayed at the same time, and from that 
hour I got better, and am now entirely whole. 
Thank God, from the time we received your letter, 
I stopped taking my medicine, for I had faith that 
Jesus would make me whole, and he did, and I 
praise God for it. 

From your sister in. Christ, 

Mamie Ray. 



A neighbor, Mrs. Croft, was taken very ill on 
Sabbath. I had just returned from holding a 
meeting at Hall Meadow, and her daughter Alice 
came rushing in, saying her mother was very sick, 
and wished me to come right over. Accordingly 
I went, and found the children crying because 
mother was so sick; she was suffering terribly 
from cramp in the stomach and bowels. I asked 
her if I should pray with her; she said yes; I 
asked her if she could believe; the reply was, yes. 
I then knelt by her bedside, asking God to relieve 
her immediately and give her faith to believe it; 



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then anointing her with oil and laying hands on 
her in the name of the Lord Jesus; in a moment 
the pain was gone and she was perfectly quiet; 
the next day was about her work as usual. She 
said, " Let others laugh about this if they please, I 
know by experience, and I ought to have been 
satisfied before, for God has healed three of my 
children in answer to prayer in the same way." 
Only a few weeks before this, her little boy Hartly 
was running about barefoot and stuck a nail in his 
foot; he caught cold in it, and came near having 
the lock-jaw. He became deranged, and they 
thought him dying. I was just retiring when 
they came for me. I was soon dressed and at the 
bedside of the little boy; he was still delirious; his 
cheeks were very red, and about the mouth was a 
clear whiteness and a quiver of the chin; his heart 
would stop beating, then it would beat vehemently; 
the leg and foot were very hot and the latter badly 
swollen. I laid my hand on his head, asking God 
to let reason take its throne. His countenance 
began to change; he looked up and smiled. I 
asked him if he was suffering much, and where; he 
said my head, my stomach, my leg and foot. I 
asked him if I should pray with him; he said yes. 



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Hall of West Haven, and I will now reply to the 
I said, do you believe God will hear and answer 
prayer and make you well ? The reply was yes. 
His mother and myself knelt beside his bed, and 
with sure faith I asked God to heal him now, to 
heal him for His own glory. Then the mother 
followed me in prayer, and seemingly she poured 
out her whole soul to God in prayer; it came from 
the heart, it reached the heart of the Almighty, 
and an answer of peace and blessing came. I 
anointed him, and laying hands on him in the 
name of the Lord Jesus, the pain left his head and 
he began to vomit, which gave immediate relief to 
the stomach; he began to perspire profusely; he 
rested quietly through the night. The next morn- 
ing he was up and dressed, and he was all about 
the house, and the next day was out doors to play. 
To God be all the glory. 

WOLCOTTVILLE, CONN. 



4 Albert Place, St. Mart's Churcii, Torquay, 
Devonshire, England, February 9, 1880. 

Dear Mrs. Mix: — I drop a few lines according 
to promise. I received your reply to my letter on 
twenty-sixth ult. May God bless you and answer 



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your prayers on my behalf. I am thankful to say 
I can take God's promises to myself and claim 
them as mine, and I am improving; the sickness 
is gradually passing off, and I am able with a little 
help to sit out of bed for an hour, sometimes two, 
every day, and my legs are getting back their 
strength. My lungs are very weak and painful at 
times, but I believe all will soon be well. I can 
praise the Lord for all His goodness to me, and 
expect great things from Him, for nothing is im- 
possible with the Lord. He can restore soon. 
May He soon answer our prayers, and may I re- 
joice in His words of comfort: "Daughter, be of 
good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole." 
— Matt. ix. 22. Please pray on for me. I will 
drop a line to you again, when quite restored. 
Believe me, yours in the Lord, 

Joa^^a Trood Clear. 



MRS. WIXANSS CASE AGArN". 

To The Editor of the Journal and Courier : 

I was very glad to read the Rev. Mr. Mead's 
letter in your issue of Thursday, concerning the 
cure, through the agency of Mrs. Mix, of Mrs. 



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article of " W.," on •" Miracles," in Monday's num- 
ber, with reference to my wife's case. In his 
communication he speaks of one case where he is 
cognizant of the facts, and says : " The account of 
the lady's condition was a culpable misrepresenta- 
tion." Very well; let us assume that he does 
know the facts in one case. He, in the other 
cases reported, assumes that there has been the 
same " misrepresentation" and " liability to error." 
I would refer " W." (if he believes in the Bible) 
to James v. 14, 15. Is the simple, earnest prayer, 
&c, evidently from the depths of an honest, up- 
right, Christian heart, an " incantation ? " Again, 
he asks, " After the laws of nature have been so 
ruthlessly trampled upon, shall we believe that the 
Omniscient Hand, which has placed these laws of 
restriction for the better protection of the race, 
can be so filled with compassion for the misery of 
one, and that misery the direct sequence of a 
violation of these righteous rules, that the whole 
order of a nature shall be revoked?" 

As wonderful things have happened, and as well 
authenticated, I say, if he is an honest seeker after 
truth, let him come forward and investigate. The 
truth will come to the surface, for it " is mighty 



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and must prevail." He says, " We know how 
credulous many minds are when wrought up to a 
sort of high pressure by the assertions of a 
stronger will." Very well; if a stronger will can 
cure let it come, say I, and with power, and don't 
attempt to discourage any one. 

My wife saw Mrs. Mix Saturday, March 1st, and 
to-day, March 21st, three weeks later, she con- 
tinues to improve, every day is gaining in strength 
both of body and of mind, notwithstanding reports 
of a relapse, which I am happy to state have no 
foundation whatever. " W." says, "But, some 
will say — i Here are the cures, you cannot get 
away from the facts.' To such statements I would 
say emphatically that they are not what they seem 
to be on the surface." How much margin does 
" W." allow " on the surface." Is not three weeks 
enough to prove this cure, strength being gained 
each day ? 

Now let us see what the doctors have said : 
Last year, one who was treating her told me he 
could not offer me any encouragement to hope she 
would ever leave her bed ; that it was a very dis- 
tressing case, and one which offered very little 
encouragement to either physicians or patient; 



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that the complication of diseases was such as to 
offer no hope of a cure, and added that I must 
bear my trouble the best I could; he would do all 
he could for her, and I believe he did, but unsuc- 
cessfully. Two others in 1878 told me about the 
same in substance, and I had fully made up my 
mind to see my wife continue to suffer, as one 
doctor said, perhaps one, perhaps twenty -five years, 
and that there was no likelihood of her being up 
from her bed in that time but very little. 

Since the visit of Mrs. Mix, March 1st, my wife 
has been up, dressed, and taken breakfast with me 
at seven o'clock every morning. March 7th she 
walked three hours in the house without injury. 
March 16th (Sunday) she dressed for the street, 
and walked out during church hours. She is con- 
stantly up around our rooms, waits upon herself 
for anything needed, has trimmed and watered her 
plants, and done some sewing and reading. Her 
brain is clear, and she remembers what she reads. 
She lies down three or four hours daily, but is 
gaining strength and has less pain than at any 
time in eleven years. She has seen a number of 
her old friends, and hopes to soon see more and 
return their calls. Calls at the house have been 



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very numerous (one clay, nineteen), and as she is 
not yet very strong, we have not thought it best 
she should see so many strangers. Notwithstand- 
ing all these facts, " W." seems to think himself 
called upon to caution the public against " paying 
any attention to the cry of these miracle per- 
formers and their votaries which are constantly 
appearing before us." If what I have heard is 
true, and all the severely sick ones should be 
cured through Mrs. Mix's agency, I for one am 
afraid " W.," like Othello, would find his occupa- 
tion gone, and be obliged to take the late Horace 
Greeley's advice to young men and " Go West." 

D. C. Winans. 



CURE OF MR. PHILLIPS. 

New Haven, July 23. 
Liver complaint, dyspepsia, and tape worm; his 
food distressed him very much every time he ate. 
He was in continual pain, languid and feeble, and 
very weak. I asked him if he believed God could 
heal him. He said he believed God was able to do 
all things, and believed God would do it now if he 
only had faith. I then asked him to pray for him- 
self, which he did most fervently. I then followed. 



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I felt the power of the spirit of God. I arose and 
laid my hands on his head in the name of the Lord. 
He felt the power of God which made him tremble 
all over; he said, don't you think I am very ner- 
vous ? I replied no. Soon another thrill went 
through his entire being. Again he asked the 
same question; I said no; it is the power of God. 
He said it was something he never felt before; 
every ache and pain w T as gone, and he felt light as 
a feather. He went to his work like a new man, 
and has been well ever since. 



Houtzdale, Clearfield, Co. Pa., 
January 24, 1880. 
Mrs. Edw^ard Mix : — Your letter came to hand 
a week ago, T prayed according to the direc- 
tions, and glory be to our Heavenly Father, I am 
better. I can walk at present without pain; I am 
improving fast, thanks be to God for my recovery. 
I shall soon be able to go to work for myself. The 
doctors gave me up the very day that I received 
your letter. Thank God that all things are pos- 
sible to him that believeth. 

Yours truly in the faith, 

John L. Jones. 



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North Goshen, August 23. 
Mr. John Baily's daughter had St. Vitus's 
dance for two years; had been under the care 
of Dr. Steele of Winsted, but all to no effect. 
The father, although not a Christian, was willing 
to pray for the recovery of the child. The mother, 
daughter, and myself joined with him, and the 
Lord heard and answered prayer. They came 
again to see me the next Friday, and the child w T as 
well, and enjoying good health. Praise the Lord. 



TORMNGTON HOLLOW. 

A German woman had been sick five weeks 
with bilious fever; couldn't help herself in the 
least. I was sent for to come and see her. I 
asked her if she could pray. She said yes, in her 
own language. I told her God knew her heart, 
and what she said, if » I did not, she seemed so 
earnest in her prayer. I then prayed with her, 
following out the command in James, 5th chapter, 
14th and 15th verses. She said, I feel so much 
stronger, and could be dressed. I called her 
daughter to get the clothes, and she was dressed, 
and walked out into the kitchen. She continued 
to grow stronger every day, and was soon able to 
be about her household duties. 



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No. 197 West Main Street, 
West Meriden, Conn. 

I wish to add my testimony to the many that 
have been healed through Mrs. Mix. 

I had been sick, confined to my bed eleven 
weeks, with nervous prostration, female weakness, 
and weak stomach; the latter being too weak to 
retain but very little food, such as a graham 
cracker and the like. I was not able to sit up 
only to have my bed made. I had been treated 
by several physicians, but without any permanent 
benefit. My bowels were so constipated they 
woy.M not move without an enema. There were 
no signs of regaining my former health, and on 
hearing of Mrs. Mix I sent for her. She came the 
evening of the 9th of May. 

We had a precious season of prayer; she then 
anointed me with oil in the name of the Lord, and 
laid her hands on me, and asked the Lord to bap- 
tize me with the Holy Ghost, and it came. I felt 
it a gentle healing at the crown of my head, and 
it went through my entire body to the ends of my 
toes. All soreness was removed and strength was 
given. I was able to get up and walk with per- 
fect ease, had a good night's rest, and the next 



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morning was up and dressed, ate a good hearty 
breakfast of ham, eggs, potatoes, and coffee, and 
to cap the climax, rode about five miles that day, 
came back feeling some tired, but soon gained 
strength, and have been able to do any amount of 
work, and I feel to give God the glory for it all. 

Mrs. E. W. Lynde. 



North Adams, Mass. 

One week and one day after Thanksgiving I 
was taken with severe pain in the left side of my 
bowels. I sent for a physician, he called it an 
abscess, but did not relieve me. I then sent for 
another; he called it a rupture. I sought four 
different physicians, Drs. Lawrence, Beard, Mack, 
and Bushnell. It continued eleven weeks, and I 
suffered excruciating pain. 

On hearing that Mrs. Mix was coming to North 
Adams, I sent for her to come and see me, which 
she did. She prayed with me and anointed me 
with oil in the name of the Lord. I began to im- 
prove immediately, the abscess broke, and dis- 
charged a perfect stream, and in less than three 
weeks I was able to be about my work. 

I shall ever be thankful that I saw Mrs. Mix, 



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and, let others think as they may, I shall always 
believe the Lord healed me, in answer to prayer. 
Truly your friend, 

Mr. Bocock. 



West Meriden, Conn., July 6th, 1880. 

In accordance with your request to give you an 
account of the sickness of our adopted-daughter 
Ernestine, familiarly known as Ernie, I send you 
the following, which I trust will impart faith to 
the hearts of other sick and suffering ones, and 
strengthen those who are weak in the faith of that 
power which God has given you, that of healing 
the sick. 

Ernie had been subject to chills and fever more 
or less frequent during the two years prior to her 
long sickness, and had used when necessary the 
usual prescribed remedies for such a disease, but 
during the winter and spring had been entirely 
free from them, and was in excellent health for 
her, she being naturally of a delicate constitution. 

May 9th, 1867, she was attacked with two chills, 
which threw her into a violent fever, affecting the 
brain and spine, and for ten days she lay in a very 
critical condition. Her sufferings were intense, 



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and her screams of "my back, my back, my head, 
my head," terrible to hear. The physician gave 
her strict attention, and in a month's time she was 
able to sit up in a chair, and be drawn about her 
room. Soon she was attacked with a convulsion, 
in which she remained four hours, requiring the 
efforts of four persons to keep her upon her bed. 
A counsel of physicians was then called, who pro- 
nounced it a disease of the spine, but thought her 
in no immediate danger. 

She was very sick for a week or so, then began 
to gain, and was able the latter part of June to 
walk a little about her room. July 4th she at- 
tempted to walk from the window by which she 
was sitting, to the table on which her medicine 
was placed, only a few steps, but her strength 
suddenly left her, and she would have fallen had I 
not sprang to her assistance. She immediately 
took to her bed, and in the evening was attacked 
with convulsions, in which she remained all night, 
and from that time could not bear her weight. 
The pain in her back had not ceased at all from 
the day she was taken sick, and when in those 
terrible spasms, it was seemingly more than one 
could endure and live. Powerful opiates were 



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administered, but they produced such distress and 
retching of the stomach that we were obliged to 
discontinue their use and inject morphine into the 
arm or spine, which was so terribly sore and sensi- 
tive to the touch that it was a most severe trial to 
endure the applications of ointments, etc., but she 
exercised great patience and fortitude, feeling that 
it was God's will that she should suffer. 

The evening of August 11th, she was seized 
with another convulsion, which lasted twenty-four 
hours, at which time she came out of it very much 
exhausted, and gradually failed during the remain- 
der of the month. 

In September she grew very much worse, and 
we considered her at death's door ; she was too 
weak to raise even a finger or make a motion of 
the head; I could not catch her faint whisperings, 
except as I placed my ear to her mouth; her mind 
wandered; she recognized no one, and at three 
different times we called her dead, for not a pulsa- 
tion was apparent, and we thought the breath had 
indeed left the body. She rallied, however, from 
these sinking spells, and the physician pronounced 
her through the crisis, and expressed strong en- 
couragement that she would soon recover. 



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The time passed heavily on, and she was not 
affected by the medicine as we expected her to be, 
and it seemed best to us to make a change of 
physicians, feeling that should she be taken from 
us by death, we had not done our whole duty till we 
had used other means for her restoration. Accord- 
ingly the change occurred about October 1st. 
During the night she appeared very differently, 
and before morning dawned we felt her mind was 
fast losing itself, and when the other doctor 
arrived it was only by his strong will and voice 
that he brought her momentarily to reason. For 
one week she sun^ constantly from mornino; till 
night, snatches of songs both sacred and sentimen- 
tal, in a strange commingling, and we could not 
seem to divert her mind from it at all. The next 
week she cried most distressingly; afterwards her 
ravings were very violent, which continued for the 
space of three months, not exhibiting any reason 
whatever. Those months of agony and suspense 
I cannot describe. None but those who have wit- 
nessed such conditions can have an adequate idea 
of her sufferings, or realize into what a terribly 
nervous state she was brought. 

I need not to say that our joy was great upon 



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the returning rays of reason, and though they 
came slowly, yet gradually, we could see that 
the change of treatment had indeed been for good. 
It was then January, 1868, and as soon as she had 
gained strength sufficient, electricity was used with 
a very soothing and quieting effect, giving much 
relief of pain, and producing easy and natural 
sleep, so refreshing to the worn-out body. 

During the month of May the gaining of strength 
was quite perceptible, and in July she was able to 
be bolstered up with pillows for a few moments at a 
time, and we could not but feel that she was on 
the sure road of recovery. August 10th we ex- 
perienced a terrible shock in the sudden death of 
my husband, and for a time it overcame her com- 
pletely, but God was present with His sustaining 
grace, and blessed the means used, imparting 
needed strength, and she continued to gain. 

The first week in September I lifted her from 
the bed, and placing her in a chair, she sat two 
and a half minutes, and every day when able, 
she sat up, till the time was increased to a couple 
of hours. 

Up to this time a little more than a year had 
elapsed since she had been from off her bed, even 



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to have it made. In March, 1879, she commenced 
to use crutches, with my assistance, and we hoped 
she would be enabled to lay one aside entirely, 
and finally the other. But she did not gain any 
feeling in her feet, through using them, as we 
expected; the ankle joints were stiff, and the 
weakness of the whole body was such that even 
for an instant she could not stand unsupported. 
After many repeated attempts I felt it not best to 
hasten the matter, and endeavored to wait with 
patience for time and exercise to accomplish the 
desired change. She was only using a small quan- 
tity of medicine, yet was obliged to take it daily, 
and during the summer months had experienced 
the happiness of intervals of cessation of pain for 
an hour or more at a time. 

The last week in September she was carried to 
a near neighbor's, which was very fatiguing, and 
for several days her pains were much increased. 
While at this friend's, an acquaintance called upon 
me, expressing a wish that I would call Mrs. Mix 
to her, but I gave her no encouragement, not even 
to inquire where she was staying in the city. I 
had no particular knowledge of her cures, but I 
had never felt faith in any wonderful cures of which 



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I had read, through whatever agency performed. 
While busy with my work after the lady left, I 
w r as impressed with a sense of wrong-doing in 
neglecting the opportunity then presented. If 
others had been restored to health, there was a 
possible chance for her, and I prayed for faith to 
be given that she might receive that great boon, 
health. I sought Mrs. Mix and listened to her 
wonderful statements, and I was convinced that 
it was God's power that wrought them, and I 
earnestly desired her to visit Ernie. 

Before reaching my home that evening the faith 
for which I had asked w T as granted me, and I 
retired to my rest joyful in the feeling that on 
the next afternoon she was to be healed entirely. 
I sent word to her that I was coming up with Mrs. 
Mix in the afternoon, and that she must have faith, 
believing that God would answer the prayers 
offered in her behalf. We found her upon the 
lounge where she had lain all day, but Mrs. Mix 
left her, in half an hour, walking about the rooms 
and up and down stairs. 

This occurred October 7th, 1879, and up to this 
time she has not seen the crutches, as I had them 
returned to the owner that evening. Her pains 



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entirely left her, feeling and sense was restored to 
her limbs, strength granted, which has increased 
during the nine months, and at this writing she 
performs most of the ordinary household duties 
for my family consisting of six, during my daily 
absence from home, dress-making. 01 course the 
heavier part, such as washing and ironing, she 
does not do. She is perfectly well, though not as 
strong as one who is possessed of a different 
nature. Very truly yours, 

Mrs. F. G. Otis. 



FAITH MAKING WHOLE. 

From New Haven Journal and Courier: 

ANOTHER IXSTAXCE OF MRS. Mix's WONDERFUL 
IXSTRUMEXTALITY. 

Another of Mrs. Mix's wonderful cures is that 
of Mrs. D. C. Winans, living on the corner of 
Davenport and Howard avenues in this city. Mr. 
TTinans makes the following statement, giving the 
particulars of the cure : Nine years ago, at con- 
finement, my wife was confined six months to her 
bed, and most of the time not able to move from 
one side of the bed to the other; since then has 



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been up most of the time until January, 1878, and 
during which period she has not been able to sit 
over three quarters of an hour and seldom over 
five or ten minutes at a time, and then often at 
the expense of from one to seven nights' sleep. 
She was, however, gaining slowly until the fall of 
'77, when she began growing worse and was taken 
down to the bed in January, 1878. x\fter that 
she was confined to the bed, and words utterly 
fail to express her suffering for the past year. 
Those who have had friends suffering from " ner- 
vous excitement and nervous exhaustion " can 
form some idea of it. During all the years' suffer- 
ing the physical pains have been slight, compared 
with her nervous pains for any one week the past 
year. Mrs. Leek of 750 State street first called 
my attention to the published statement of the 
wonderful cures performed through Mrs. Mix of 
Wolcottville, and urged me strongly to try her. 
Others advised me the same, Mr. Bartram's cus- 
tomer included. So I did, and I believe I have 
reason to thank God to-day that I did so. 

Mrs. Mix answered my summons Saturday, 
March 1, arrived at the house about 11 a. m., 
corner of Davenport and Howard avenues. Yv r hen 



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I arrived home to dinner I found my wife was up 
and had dressed herself with Mrs. Mix's assist- 
ance. She had been sitting up for some time, was 
not and has not since been. laboring under any 
excitement in consequence of the treatment, on 
the contrary, feels better than she has in a year and 
a half, and is getting perceptibly stronger every 
day, and is better than before in ten years. My 
wife and I with Mrs. Mix, ate dinner that day 
together, she sitting up until nearly three o'clock 
p. m., when she lay down somewhat weak and 
tired. She has been up and dressed herself every 
day since then, taking breakfast with me every 
morning at seven o'clock, and has not missed eat- 
ing a meal with me for a week. Although getting 
strength she does not see any friends. The other 
day when I came home to dinner, I found that she 
had been walking, and had walked steadily for 
over three hours, and at ten o'clock when I bade 
her good night, she said she was doing nicely 
only a trine lame from her long walk. But her 
faith is strong. She says the Lord is the best phy- 
sician. She prays almost constantly, and it seems 
to her as if He was right by her, strengthening and 
comforting her. If this published statement of 



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her case may be the means of relieving and curing 
one suffering invalid, we shall be well repaid for 
all of our trouble. 



Newport, R. I., Aug. 2, 1881. 
Mrs. Mix. 

Dear Sister: — There is a young lady of 15 
summers who came to my church, and she felt im- 
pressed to come forward and seek a Saviour's dying 
love. She did, and all at once the use of her tongue 
and her limbs were gone. She said before she left 
home she desired to see and feel as others did who 
came to the light; she w T as taken home and has 
never spoken or moved a limb in eighteen or nine- 
teen weeks. The father and mother are members of 
the church, they have done all they can for the 
child, and so have the neighbors; a Spiritualist 
physician from Baltimore has been consulted, medi- 
cines were sent, directions were followed, but to no 
purpose, all have failed in their attempts. She has 
lain unconscious and with her eyes closed ever 
since, and I now come to you, in the name of the 
Father, Son and Holy Ghost, to take her case in 
hand; will you please set a time, the day and hour 
when you will pray for her, and let us know, that 



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we may unite with you; the name of the girl is 
Miss Susan Haden. Rev. Mr. Laws. 

I replied to the letter and set the time when I 
would pray for her, and wished them to unite with 
me at the same hour; they received my letter 
August 7 th, and quickly replied they would meet me 
at the throne of grace at that hour, Wednesday the 
10th at 2:30; the hour arrived, prayer was offered; 
August the 15th I received the following letter: 

Dear Sister Mix: — God's name is to be praised 
for what we have seen; the young lady can open 
her eyes and laugh, which is the first sign of in- 
telligence she has given, but she is not able to 
talk or to use her limbs, but the parents are very 
much encouraged at what they have seen; please 
set another time when you will pray for her per- 
fect recovery, but we thank God for this; remem- 
ber she has done more than at any time since her 
sickness. Rev. J. Laws. 

United prayer was again offered for her, and the 
reply came back: 

Mrs. Mix: — I am more than glad to inform 
you that the young lady has been wonder- 
fully restored, both soul and body. We met ac- 



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cording to your appointment, we read the Scrip- 
tures and sung and prayed, then I left the room, 
and my wife performed the anointing with oil in 
the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, 
amen, commanding her to rise up by faith and 
walk, and she did, and as she began to walk, the 
power of God flowed into her soul, and she cried 
and praised God in the highest. The house has 
been filled with astonished souls, saying, "We did 
not know that God did such things, now we do." 
Praise the Lord for his wonderful works to the chil- 
dren of men. Rev. W. J. Laws, 

New Bedford, Mass. 



WOLCOTTVILLE, CONN. 

I was sick with inflammatory rheumatism, from 
the middle of September until about the 10th of 
October, 1879. I was then a backslider, and cared 
not for the things of God, but I had tried all kinds 
of medicine I could get, and employed a good phy- 
sician, yet all to no effect. Although I believed in 
faith cures, yet I did not want to send for Mrs. Mix, 
but I was suffering so intensely, as a last resort, I 
sent for her; about eleven o'clock at night she 
came and prayed with me, and I prayed for myself 



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confessing my sins and promising God I would for- 
sake them, and asking him to forgive me and heal 
me, and, thanks be to God, in less than half an 
hour I could walk all about the room, and I rested 
well the rest of the night, and am to-day, March 
5, 1881, well and free from rheumatism, and serv- 
ing the Lord. Charles G. Hart. 



New Haven-, Conn., 405 Columbus Avenue. 
I wish to testify of the goodness of God to me 
in answer to the prayer of faith offered by Mrs. 
Mix. I had been troubled with dreadful head- 
aches from childhood, and as I grew older they be- 
came more severe and more frequent; they would 
last me three and four days. I was having a very 
severe attack previous to the evening that I sent 
for Mrs. Mix; I had employed a skillful physician, 
but to no purpose, medicines and remedies failed, 
and at last, through the advice of my physician and 
other friends, I sent for Mrs. Mix. She came; my 
faith was strong in God that I should be delivered; 
the physician had been to see me that day, but I 
could not keep one drop of medicine nor a particle 
of food on my stomach. Mrs. Mix and myself had 
a blessed season of prayer together, and the spirit 



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of the Lord was present to heal; truly it was in 
our midst, and as she anointed me with oil and 
laid her hand on me in the name of the Lord 
Jesus, all pain left me, and I felt like an entire 
new body, and in less than five minutes I ate 
heartily of cracker and milk without the least dis- 
turbance, which was a thing impossible for me to 
do before; and as the neighbors came in next 
morning to see, for they could not believe the re- 
port that I was sitting up, it seemed to them like 
one raised from the dead. My physician came in 
next morning. He turned to my daughter and said, 
" I am sorry I could not have come in sooner, but I 
have been detained awa}^ so long I suppose she 
has been suffering terribly. I suppose I shall find 
your mother in here ? " pointing to my bed-room. 
I then said, " No, you will not find me there but 
here eating my dinner." He turned to me with 
surprise and asked if my head ached now. I re- 
plied no; he asked where I was in pain. I said no- 
where; he replied it was a wonder for rne. I told 
him I had sent for Mrs. Mix as he wished me to do. 
He was very glad, for he said medicine was doing 
me no good, and such cases he liked to see the 
Lord take in hand; and, thank God, I have had but 



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two spells since, and it is more than two years, 
and those two were brought on by overtaxing my 
body and mind both. Oh what a blessing I re- 
ceived spiritually! my soul has been filled unutter- 
ably full of glory and of God, and I still desire to 
trust Him. Yours in faith, 

Mrs. Susan B. Talmage. 



On August the 30th, 1881, I received a letter 
from Miss C. M. Dean, stating that she had a 
friend, a young lady, who had not walked for the 
space of three years, and that she was afflicted 
with what was pronounced spinal disease by the 
physician, and assuring me of the fact that the 
young lady was a Christian, but her faith was not 
sufficient to believe that by simple faith in the 
Great Physician, she could be cured without med- 
icine, and that the name of the lady was Miss 
Mamie Leo, the daughter of Professor Leo of the 
high school, and that Mamie's sister Jennie, with 
the Mrs. Rev. J. A. Kummer, and Miss Carrie 
Judd of Buffalo and herself with other friends, 
would unite in prayer for Mamie on Saturday, 
September 10th, from 2 to 3 p. m., and wished me 
to unite with them at that hour. As soon as I re- 



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ceived the letter I began to pray that faith might 
be given her, and that victory over disease might 
be hers, and on the 8th I received a card of Sep- 
tember 7th, that the Lord had been pleased to an- 
swer the desire of their hearts even before they 
had expected it, and that Miss Leo, on Saturday, 
the 3rd, at nine and a half a. m., arose from her 
bed and walked without help from any earthly 
power, and on the Sabbath walked a square to 
Sunday-school and church ; and afterwards I saw 
a scrap from a newspaper, saying that when the 
lady walked in church alone, there was such an 
excitement in the church that several ladies fainted; 
but whether that be correct or not, one thing we 
know, whereas she was sick now she is healed, 
and to God be all the glory for His wonderful 
works to the children of men. 
Eire, Pa. 



112 East 126th St., N. Y. City. 
In the month of January my daughter, 15 years 
of age, was taken sick with chorea, — the doctors 
said, in its most exaggerated form; it attacked 
every portion of the body, keeping her in continual 
motion when awake; some of the time the opening 



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and shutting of her eyes was the only medium in 
which she could make known her sufferings. 

The most powerful opiate known to the faculty 
would not keep her asleep more than an hour, 
and then the shutting of a door or a foot-fall 
would awaken her. The doctor told us we could 
look for her death at any moment as the disease 
had attacked her spine and heart. 

When first taken sick she asked me to write to 
Mrs. Mix and others, saying that she should never 
get well unless God cured her. Mrs. Mix arrived 
on Thursday at half past eleven; she prayed with 
her, anointing her in the name of the Lord. Be- 
fore dinner she was in a moist sweat, sleeping as 
naturally as ever; in the afternoon she talked quite 
well; that night she slept soundly, only waking 
once. On Saturday morning she asked to be 
dressed. Mrs. Mix told her she must now consider 
herself healed. Since that time she has not taken 
any medicine; she is now perfectly well. The 
doctor said he could not understand it, but looks 
upon her case as a miracle. 

Mrs. Carrie Wilson. 



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Elizabeth St., Norwich, Conn., 

Oct. 11, 1881. 

This is to certify that through the instrumental- 
ity of Mrs. Edward Mix and her wonderful faith 
in God, her prayers, and the laying on of hands 
and anointing with oil in the name of the Lord, 
have restored to me my voice, which had left me, 
and has benefited me in everyway. I wish to give 
the Lord all the glory for His wonderful power, 
and claim this entirely as a faith cure. 

Mrs. Royal Cross. 

P. S. When my son came in, he said " Thank 
God, I hear my mother's voice once more." 

Composed by Mrs. Edward Mix. 

Thank God, I hear my mother's voice once more, 
That gentle voice, I heard in days of yore ; 
To God be all the glory, to Him the praise, 
Through ceaseless ages of eternal days. 

Thank God, I hear my mother's voice once more, 
Let all the earth praise God, and Him adore ; 
Through faith in the dear Saviour's precious name, 
The promises of God by faith she claimed. 

Thank God, I hear my mother's voice once more, 
Let me proclaim this truth from shore to shore, 



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Let all that is within me bless His holy name, 
And spread abroad the riseii Saviour's fame. 

The promises of God are true and sure, 
From everlasting to the end endure ; 
Ask, and ye shall receive, God's word declares, 
Asking is yours, the blessing God prepares. 



Pittsfield, January 15, 1880. 
I had been sick several weeks, attended with 
nausea and vomiting. For six weeks I could not 
keep anything on my stomach, not even medicine. 
I was very weak, I could not move in bed without 
assistance. My physician used every available 
means to restore me, but I failed rapidly and felt 
that my days were few. Hearing of Mrs. Mix's 
great cure through faith in prayer, my friends 
sent for her. Mrs. Mix was not with me more 
than ten minutes when she assisted me in dress- 
ing. I walked out into the sitting-room, had food 
prepared for me; could eat without nausea. I 
have not been troubled with my stomach since. 
Yours respectfully, 

Mrs. S. A. Carpenter. 



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Norristown, Pa., May 31, 1881. 

Dear Sister: — It gives us great pleasure to 
say that our dear little Harry seems much better 
since the days which you appointed to pray for 
him. 

Added strength and vigor seemed given at the 
very time. This certainly was no case of mental 
influence over a patient's mind, for he is only a 
little over four years old. The work is of the 
Lord. To Him be all the glory! Yours, with 
faith in the great Physician. 

Rev. N. B. Randall. 



Elykia, August 3, 1880. 

Mr. Mix, Christian Friend: — I received your 
letter more than a week ago, but sickness in my 
family prevented my answering at an earlier date. 

I feel quite willing to add my testimony to 
hundreds of others who have been benefited by 
visiting your wife, and laying hold of God's prom- 
ises through her faith and prayers. In September 
of 1877 I took a cold which fastened itself so 
firmly upon my lungs as to render it impossible to 
throw it off. In October of 1878 I sought anoth- 
er and more friendly clime, and seemed somewhat 



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benefited by the change, but the cause was not 
removed. I returned in April of 1879, and very 
soon began to decline rapidly. My cough was 
terrible, my strength and flesh vanished rapidly; 
I suffered loss of appetite and was oppressed for 
breath. I again left home and received temporary 
relief from some of my troubles, under skiilful 
medical treatment. I remained, however, very 
feeble, with the prospect of decline with the au- 
tumn and winter changes. I was induced by 
friends to call on Mrs. Mix. I saw her in Novem- 
ber, 1879; she prayed with me and for me, and 
inspired me with faith to lay hold of God's prom- 
ises, discarding every medicine and any trust in 
an arm of flesh. I felt a marked improvement 
from this visit; I could breathe freely; the soreness 
from my chest and lungs was removed; I could 
turn over in bed without pain, and all pleuritic 
symptoms disappeared. My throat, which was ul- 
cerated at the time, did not show as sudden im- 
provement. I called on her again for that, and it 
healed as soon as in the nature of things it could. 
During the first month after seeing her, I gained 
eight pounds of flesh, and in two months returned 
home, weak of course, but comparatively well. I 



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find just as long as I hold strong in faith, relying 
on the Great Physician, I get along splendidly. 
I feel that I have to return many thanks to Mrs. 
Mix, under God, for my restored health, my in- 
creased faith and love to my Heavenly Father. 
Excuse bad writing for I am quite worn with car- 
ing for the sick. With much regard to your wife 
and yourself, I am most sincerely your friend and 
well-wisher. 

S. S. T. Johnson. 



THE POWER OF PRAYER. 

The following, regarding the work of Mrs. Mix 
at Utica, N. Y., is from the Utica Observer: 

"Last week it was announced that Mrs. Mix, 
a colored lady from Wolcottville, Conn., was in 
Utica. In this connection it was stated that Mrs. 
Mix came here to treat several invalids, her heal- 
ing agency being prayer. She came well recom- 
mended, and stopped at the residence of Mr. Ben- 
jamin Hall, No. 69 Mary street. Some time ago 
when Mrs. Hall was an invalid, she heard of some 
remarkable cures wrought through prayer by Mrs. 
Mix in Connecticut. She wrote, asking Mrs. Mix 
to cpme to Utica, but was informed that this for 



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some time would be impossible, owing to the en- 
o-ao-ements which Mrs. Mix had in the State in 
which she lives. Mrs. Hall, who was a great suf- 
ferer, concluded to make the journey to Connecti- 
cut in order to secure treatment from the colored 
lady of whom she had heard so much. She ac- 
cordingly journeyed to Connecticut, meeting Mrs. 
Mix at New Milford, and remaining under her 
treatment for a short time. She received imme- 
diate benefit and is to-day a healthy woman. The 
lady resides at No. 69 Mary street, and she readily 
testifies to the efficacy of the cure performed for 
her by the Connecticut colored lady." 



North Adams, Mass., July 26, 1880. 
I have had a nervous disease for several years, 
which affected me about swallowing any solid food 
or taking cold drinks. I have had everything 
done for me that medicines could do; they all 
failed. In February, 1879, I was taken worse; 
my throat seemed nearly closed with a mucus, 
which caused me to spit all the time while eating, 
and finally I could not take bread in any form. 
July 17th I was prostrated; I just lived on liquids 
until September, when I was under the care of a 



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magnetic doctor; I remained under his treatment 
for four weeks, and in that time got so I could 
take thin flour gruel, and tried to take bread, but 
could not; I could walk a little and ride, but could 
not wait upon myself. I was thinking I must see 
the magnetic doctor again, when we heard of a 
woman living in Wolcottville, Conn., who cured by 
faith and prayer. I sent for her to come and see 
me; she came Nov. 27. I had faith she could help 
me; she prayed with me and anointed me with oil 
in the name of the Lord; then I drank cold water, 
and ate bread soaked in water, all in the name of 
the Lord, and have done so every day since, and I 
am now able to wait upon myself. She visited me 
again in May, and I went home with her and stayed 
two weeks and four days. While there I got so that 
I wore my teeth, which I had been unable to do 
for several years, and ceased to spit while eating. 
I had not been to church in over four years. I now 
attend every Sabbath when it is pleasant. 

Mrs. John N. Chase. 



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West Meriden, Conn., September 18, 1880. 
Dear Brother Mix: — Your letter came some 
time ago. I have not answered it because T did not 
know just what to write. It is well known by 
all who were acquainted with the exact condition 
of my wife before sister Mix came and prayed 
with her, that she could not have lived longer than 
a few weeks. She could not walk a step, or even 
get up or down from the bed without assistance. 
After sister Mix prayed over her, anointing her 
with oil in the name of the Lord, she arose from 
the bed, commenced to walk, and has walked 
more or less every day since. At the time you 
were here with sister Mix and prayed for her, and 
laid hands on the large scrofulous swelling, there 
was not the least indication that it was gathering 
to break. There was not the- slightest token of 
impending suppuration. The flesh of the tumor 
looked precisely as it had for six months. It 
broke the very night following the day you 
prayed, and discharged copiously. It has dis- 
charged freely at three different times, and her 
system is thereby being cleansed. She is not yet 
wholly recovered, but is constantly and surely 
gaining, and we believe that in answer to the 



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prayer of faith she will be raised up, that she will 
recover her health. She has taken no medicine 
since sister Mix prayed with her, and is trusting 
our loving Heavenly Father to bring her back 
to permanent health. 

I have thus made a statement of her case just 
as it is at the present time. 

Very truly yours in Christ, 

S. W. Bishop. 



I am ready to testify to the goodness of God in 
restoring me to health after a long and severe ill- 
ness. My health entirely failed in the winter of 
1877-78, and for a number of months was very 
feeble; at times I was confined to my bed. For 
eight weeks before Mrs. Mix was called to see me 
I could not leave my bed, I was unable to sit up 
and could only be moved in the most careful man- 
ner possible. I had been treated by a skillful 
physician, who had succeeded in alleviating my 
sufferings, that at times were intense. Both my- 
self and friends had hoped for a cure, but found 
after any extra exertion a return of those alarm- 
ing symptoms which were sure to herald such ex- 
treme suffering. A friend urged me to see Mrs. 



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Mix. At first I had no faith; then I began to 
think of those promises in the word of God, such 
as " The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and 
the Lord shall raise him up," and "AH things what- 
soever ye ask in prayer, believing ye shall receive." 
These promises with many others, were they not 
for me if I would but have faith to lay hold of 
them ? Mrs. Mix came, she talked with me upon 
faith, repeating the promises of God; then she 
prayed most fervently, prayed that those promises 
might be verified to me then; that I might be 
given health and strength. She then laid her 
hands upon me in the name of the Lord. I was at 
the time suffering severe pain; in less than an hour 
I was free from all pain and given strength to get 
up alone and get my i clothes and dress myself, and 
walk about the house. It has now been two 
years, and I am well, and have been all the time 
able to work and enjoy myself. I have taken no 
medicine or any remedies of any kind. 

With a firm trust in the power and willingness 
of the Lord to heal all our diseases, 

Mrs. Apply. 



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ANOTHER TESTIMONY FOR MR. AND 
MRS. MIX. 

One year ago, on the 9th of June, 1879, I was 
prostrated upon a bed of sickness. I was at that 
time under the treatment of a doctor who had 
been recommended to me by some friends; after 
taking some of his medicine I grew worse, and I 
rapidly grew worse the more he tried to relieve me; 
my mother being satisfied that such was the case, 
called our family doctor, one of the leading doc- 
tors of the city, who after a very careful exami- 
nation pronounced me in a very critical condition, 
owing to the nature of the medicine I had taken, 
it being too strong for me; he then took my case 
in hand, but I became so weak and helpless I could 
not raise my hand to my head; I could not partake 
of one particle of the lightest food; all that I sub- 
sisted upon was a teaspoonful of French brandy 
every half hour w T ith ice, but as I continued to 
grow weak, the brandy was reduced to three 
drops at a time, and that was too much for me. 
The doctor came twice a day and said I must con- 
tinue the brandy, as that was all he could do for 
me, but my attendant feared to give it to me, fear- 
ing I would die immediately, as it made me death- 



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ly sick every drop I took. On Sunday, the 22d, 
the doctor came and felt my pulse 5 he called my 

mother out of the room and said to her: " Mrs. 
Cornell, your daughter was very low yesterday, 
and is but very little better now, but you must 
continue to give her the medicine: if she cannot 
take six drops then give her three." He said he 
would call early in the morning, or if I got worse 
to send for him. I was unconscious the most of 
the time. I felt I was past all earthly help; dur- 
ing the night my mother and a friend watched by 
my bedside, watching every pulsation as I sank 
away; several times they thought I would never 
breathe again; then after a while they could per- 
ceive that life was not extinct. On Saturday, the 
21st, by the advice of a neighbor and my sister, 
mv mother dispatched for Mr. Mix, of Wolcott- 
ville, asking him to come immediately and see me, 
and offer the prayer of faith in my behalf, as it 
was clearly to be seen that I had but a short 
time to live, unless God's miraculous power was 
made manifest in my behalf. On Monday morn- 
ing the doctor came about 10 o'clock: he said I 
was no better, and shook his head despairingly, 
still ordered the medicine to be continued, al- 



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though he was told the bad effect it had on me, 
he said it was the best prescription he could give 
me at that time. I laid as one dead, my limbs 
were cold, and my breathing rendered difficult, 
my countenance was changed, and a death-like 
pallor had settled o'er my features. My mother 
was afraid to leave me even to partake of any 
food herself, fearing I should pass away, and she 
not see me. At noon she went into the kitchen 
to get some dinner, but before she could eat any 
she was called to come to me again, and what a 
change she saw in me; death was depicted in every 
line of my countenance; she said to herself, my 
child is dvino* but she would not allow herself to 
be excited, as she wished to be with me at the 
very last moment. At that moment the door-bell 
rang, and my sister, on going to the door, an- 
nounced Mr. Mix had come. After resting a few 
moments he asked mother if she were a Christian. 
She replied in the affirmative; he asked her if she . 
believed in the promises that Jesus made to His 
disciples when He was on the earth, and he repeated 
a number of the promises, and she replied she did 
believe; he then asked if I were a Christian, and 
the answer was yes. He told mother it was noth- 



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ing he could do to restore her daughter, but what 
good was done must be accomplished through 
Jesus, and according to her faith so would her 
daughter be blessed. Mother came into the room 
with him, and as he entered what a sight met his 
gaze. There I lay with my eyes set in their 
sockets, the death film almost covering the sight. 
He laid his left hand on my heart and his right 
hand on my eyes, and told my mother to pray. 
She fell upon her knees and poured out her soul 
in prayer to God for the preservation of her child, 
and a speedy restoration of my health and strength 
again, with all the faith she could command, and 
she says she never knew what faith in God was 
until that day; and when mother had ceased 
praying I remained motionless as ever. Mr. Mix 
talked to God the same as a child would to a ten- 
der parent. He told God of the promises He had 
made to His children, and quoted many passages 
.of scripture, and such an appeal to the throne of 
grace is seldom heard. Oh, the simplicity of the 
prayer, so humble, so sincere! The very place 
seemed holy. And when they had finished prayer 
they arose from their knees, and mother, wiping 
the tears from her eyes, looked at me, and my 



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face was natural as ever, my eyes were bright, and 
I looked at mother and smiled. Mother could 
hardly believe it to be true, although she was try- 
ing to have faith. Mother spoke to me and asked 
me how I felt; I told her a great deal better; this 
was the first of my knowing that Mr. Mix had 
come, but mother has since told me about it. I 
could speak louder and stronger than I had for a 
long time. We then returned thanks to God for 
His answering the petitions; I then for the first 
time since my prostration arose up in bed and 
asked for a fan to fan myself with. All this was 
accomplished in less than two hours. Mother said 
she was not prepared to see such a great change, 
and was a little fearful that it was too good to 
last; still she tried hard to have faith and not 
doubt. She thought when the doctor came if he 
pronounced me better she would be satisfied. I 
began to be hungry and asked for food; they were 
compelled to be very careful what they gave me* 
as I had not eaten in so long a time. So they 
gave me light food, and I rested well all night and 
awoke in the morning feeling much refreshed, and 
was thankful to God that I had so far recovered. Mr. 
Mix came in in the morning and prayed with me 



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again, and then returned home. Our family doc- 
tor soon came, and from the expression of his 
countenance he expected to see a corpse. He 
entered the room softly and looked at me, he 
raised his hands with astonishment, took my hand, 
felt my pulse. " Why, Miss Cornell," said he, 
" your pulse is as strong as mine, you are well, 
you do not need my care any longer. I will give 
you a prescription for some iron," and left, saying 
if he was needed to send for him. But the iron 
was not bought, neither has the doctor been called 
since, for I have enjoyed better health since my 
recovery by prayer than ever before. On the 
fourth day Mrs. Mix came and anointed me, and 
prayed God to remove every vestige of disease; 
and from that treatment all the lingering pains 
were removed, and from that time I have not taken 
one cent's worth of medicine of any kind. I only 
pray and trust, and I wish to add a word to the af- 
flicted, that all things are possible to him that 
believeth. Vldella V. Cornell, 

39 Spery Street, 

New Haven, Conn. 
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Hinsdale, Mass., March 25, 1880. 
I wish to give testimony to my long illness, and 
of my wonderful cure. I was taken sick the last 
of February, 1875, but was able to be around the 
house until the first week of March. The 6th the 
doctor was called, I got no better; two days after 
he came to see me I was unable to sit up any,- on 
account of the pain in my back. After I had been 
sick three weeks the doctor wanted counsel, one 
of the best doctors in Pittsfield was sent for; he 
came, the disease was pronounced inflammation of 
the kidneys. I had used blisters, which gave me 
some relief ; all kinds of medicine were tried. I 
soon got so I could keep nothing on my stomach, 
and would have spells of vomiting every few mo- 
ments. For days all I could take was ice; my head 
pained me fearfully, was obliged to keep a bag of 
ice on it day and night ; leeches were tried on my 
head, and they gave some little relief, but I 
continued to grow worse until May, when they 
thought I could live but a few days. Doctors from 
other towns were called, they all said my physi- 
cian was doing all that could be done; I was in 
such pain, and could take no medicine in my 
stomach, so the doctor began to inject morphine 



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into my limbs. I began to feel a little better, but 
was unable to sit up any, having constant pain in 
my back; I had used over fifty blisters, and some of 
the time would be more comfortable ; I was carried 
from one bed to another by the doctor, and he 
thought I would be able soon to sit up a little; 
I had a seton kept in nine weeks, and I continued 
to suffer; a reclining chair was bought, the doctor 
put me in it a few times, but it made me worse. 
We had heard that Mr. and Mrs. Mix were in 
Pittsfield, and we sent for them ; they came No- 
vember 26, 1879. I was then very helpless, and 
was using morphine all the time. After prayer for 
my healing I was enabled to rise up in bed, and 
with a little assistance from Mrs. Mix walked a few 
feet to a chair, and in about half an hour I walked 
back to the bed alone; I had been in the habit of 
having morphine injected five or six times in 
twenty-four hours, and the doctor said it would 
kill me to leave it off, but in answer to the prayer 
of faith I was enabled to leave it off entirely. One 
week from the day they called to see me, I walked 
out to the carriage, got in and rode one mile. In less 
than two weeks, when Mr. and Mrs. Mix went to 
their home in Connecticut, I was able to go with 



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them; I staid with them four weeks and then 
came home alone. I am now quite well and strong, 
and can walk half a mile to church and back ; I can 
do a good deal of house work, and have taken no 
medicine since. When I see what a change the 
Lord has wrought in me I feel I cannot thank 
Him enough. I can say truly, come all the world 
and I will tell you what the Lord has done for me. 
Yours, trusting in Jesus, 

Mary E. Mack. 



Southington, Conn., October 13, 1880. 
Many instances of healing being recorded in 
this book, I, too, would tell of God's boundless love 
and mercy to me. For more than twelve years 
have been subject to severe neuralgia sick head- 
aches, and as strength gradually failed these at- 
tacks were followed by fainting and, at last, spasms. 
For the past six years I have been a suffering 
invalid, and for two and one half years was almost 
constantly prostrated by complicated troubles 
and nervous prostration. Sleep for long intervals 
was a stranger, and whenever I could sleep would 
become so exhausted that on awaking I would 
be gasping for breath and fainting instantly, and 



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the derangement of my bodily powers brought 
with it nearly every variety of pain. I became so 
reduced in strength, and so sensitive were my 
nerves, that the least change or excitement would 
produce faint sinking spells, and for weeks little 
or no hopes of my recovery. No description of 
my weakness and suffering can be given. Dur- 
ing my sickness have been attended by seven dif- 
ferent physicians, receiving no decided relief. At 
last Dr. Ailing, a very skillful physician from New 
Haven, was called, and I was greatly benefited 
w r hile under his care, but at the time of my 
seeing Mrs. Mix I was not able to stand upon my 
feet or walk without support. I was obliged to 
take nervine two and three times a day, and other 
medicine, besides using other remedies. She re- 
quested me to lay aside all medicine, and support 
was removed, and during prayer I immediately 
perceived a change in the diseased part of my 
system, and could walk about more comfortably 
than before in five years. Sleep became more 
natural and refreshing. And, as I ventured 
forth leaning upon God and his promises, I found 
my faith was to be tested, and at almost every 
step I met the foe. But to him that o'ercometh 



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God giveth a crown. My improvement was rather 
slow, but I could praise and thank God for my 
sloio improvement. After several months I met 
with Mrs. Mix again, and in less than a week I 
received a still greater blessing, the change in 
my system became more and more perceptible, 
but during this physical change I was very weak; 
yet, notwithstanding, I was able to wait upon 
myself and do many things I had not been able to 
do previously. I felt to exclaim, " Oh ! for a thou- 
sand tongues to sing." And a spiritual blessing 
followed, of which I would relate, " but the half 
can never be told." I was surrounded by heavy 
darkness, there was not a ray of light in my hori- 
zon, and I was driven to the very verge of de- 
spair. But at last, away,/ar, far atcay, almost out 
of sight, there beamed the faintest gleam of hope. 
Thank God for that faint gleam. It was but a glim- 
mer through the gloom. And then came this prom- 
ise shining bright and clear, "I will not fail thee nor 
forsake thee." I clung to this, for my only hope 
was in Christ. I was then standing at the end of 
a long and narrow road. Oh! so anxious to press 
forward in this narrow path, but I was utterly 
helpless, and while standing there in my weak- 



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ness, Jesus came to me saying: " Fear not, for I 
have redeemed thee, I have called thee by name, 
thou art mine." I placed my hand in His saying, 
" I will fear no evil, for thou art with me." I walked 
with Jesus. And most gladly therefore did I glory 
in my infirmities that the power of Christ could 
rest upon me. I was then left standing alone and 
yet 1 was not alone, and before me was a dark and 
heavy cloud; I was to pass through this cloud. I 
was to work out my own salvation with fear and 
trembling. At this point I remained for several 
weeks, and at last I passed through. Victory 
was mine, thanks be to God which giveth us 
the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. At 
the close of two months from this, as I retired for 
the night, I sank into a quiet sleep, and slept for 
several hours, and as I awoke I thanked God for 
that refreshing sleep; never during my sickness 
had I enjoyed such rest. Just then a feeling 
passed over me, different from anything I had 
ever experienced, and just as I seemed to be sink- 
ing I heard a voice so tenderly saying, u Jesus is 
healing thee." I could not move my lips to speak, 
but from the depths of my inmost soul I cried, 
thank God! thank God! My feelings were beyond 



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expression. I realized the nearness of my Sa- 
viour, and God's power coursing through every 
vein. And again I was weak and feeble, and for 
a time there seemed to be no perceptible gain/ 
But in my body I was healed, and as I venture 
out little by little my strength is gradually return- 
ing. I do considerable light work, have walked 
about a quarter of a mile without resting; arid 
again I thank God that I am still improving and 
still trusting. 

Mrs. Maria Byi^gton. 



Mary Perkins had a severe bilious headache, 
and very sick at the stomach, and was obliged to 
go to bed. I knelt in earnest prayer to God in 
her behalf, and she arose and came to the table 
and ate, and then went around about her duties. 
Soon the enemy began to tempt her again, and to 
make her think she was worse again. I laid 
hands on her and prayed, bidding disease depart 
in the name of Jesus. And, thank the Lord, it did 
go, and she was perfectly well. 
New Haven, July 20. 



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Mrs. Seymour, who was nearly blind, was im- 
pressed that if I should see her and lay hands on 
her, she would be healed. She could not see well 
enough to tell whether a person across the room 
was white or black. I prayed with her and laid 
hands upon her eyes in the name of Jesus, and 
when I took them off she could see my face, and 
she felt the power of God. The next time I saw 
her I laid hands on her eyes again, and told her to 
put on her glasses and try to read the Bible, 
and she read it right off. Soon after that she 
pieced a bed-quilt containing one thousand and 
four pieces. God can open the eyes of the blind. 

WOLCOTTYILLE, CONN. 



CASE OF EDDIE HUMPHRY. 
He had fever for nearly two weeks, leaving him 
with his bowels very much constipated. He ex- 
pressed to his parents a great desire to see me. 
Accordingly I was sent for. When I arrived I 
found their family physician present, who had 
been attending him twice a day for two days; his 
bowels were bloated badly, and had not moved for 
several days. I proposed a season of prayer, and 
Eddie, his mother, and aunt, and myself all united 



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in a prayer of faith for the dear sick boy. I then 
anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord. All 
pain soon left his bowels, the bloat went down, 
his aches and pains were all gone; he sat up in 
bed feeling quite cheerful; his physician then came 
into the room and said, " Eddie, this is better than 
taking medicine." The reply was, " Yes, sir." He 
then told him he was doing well, and would not 
need him any more, and told the father of the child 
the same. I told them when his bowels moved he 
would have a severe time, but for them not to be 
frightened, and to rub his bowels but not give any 
medicine, I left, telling them if they wanted me 
to come for me, Some time after he was taken 
with severe pain, and they, being frightened, sent 
for the physician, but before he arrived the boy 
was all right; he began to improve and in a very 
few days was able to be up and out of doors, 
Goshen, September 10, 1879. 



ANOTHER CURE THROUGH MRS. MIX. 
To the Editor of the Journal and Courier : 

After suffering for nine years and five months, 
I feel it my duty to let the public know what has 
been done for mo by faith and prayer, through 



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God's instrument, Mrs. Mix of Wolcottville, Conn. 
I had a complication of diseases which baffled the 
skill of all the physicians that I employed, and for 
six weeks had not left my bed only as I was lifted 
from it to the lounge, as ordered by my attending 
physician. Mrs. Mix came to see me on the 27th 
day of June, prayed with me and anointed me 
with oil in the name of the Lord. I passed through 
such a change of body that I was able to get up 
and be dressed, and from that time I have felt 
well, and all my disease is gone. I am able to 
walk and ride with perfect ease, which I had not 
been able to do in nine years and five months, and 
to God be all the glory. 

Mrs. H. W. Lessey, 
614 Chapel street, New Haven. 



THE GREAT PHYSICIAN. 

Dear Mr. Editor : — I am very much inter- 
ested in the Home Department of your valuable 
paper. I am a professor of religion, and a firm 
believer in direct and special answers to earnest, 
faithful, importunate, specific prayer. For a num- 
ber of years I was a sufferer, and had spent much 



1 i<f 

money with different physicians, but all in vain, 
until one day the thought presented itself to me 
that Jesus could heal me if I had the faith to 
believe it. I mustered all the faith I had, and 
asked God for more, and the moment that I fully 
believed I was healed. Although it is now almost 
five years since I was healed, I have never at any 
time felt a return of my former trouble. I write 
this for the encouragement of my afflicted sisters, 
and to the glory of Jesus, my Great Physician. 
And not only has Jesus verified his promises to me 
in this instance of healing, but also in many others. 
At different times when in need of temporal things, 
the Lord has heard and answered specific prayer, 
and sent the needed things, and supplied all my 
temporal wants, as well as spiritual. 

Lizzie Yetley. 



THE DOUBLE PRAYER. 

A TRUE INCIDENT. 

It was past midnight. Tossing in the restless- 
ness of pain and fever, Florence lay on her wake- 
ful couch, burning with thirst, yet unable to 
swallow a drop of water to assuage it without 



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adding to her pain. " Call my father," she cried 
in her agony to her mother, her only watcher, 
who had sought in vain to afford any relief. 
Softly the mother went to an adjoining room 
where Florence's father, exhausted by previous 
watching, lay in a deep sleep. Hesitating, she 
went back without disturbing him, to hear again 
the beseeching request, " Call my father. I am so 
thirsty, and I cannot drink." 

This was something beyond the mother's experi- 
ence, that water, taken when craved so earnestly, 
should distress, instead of afford relief. She felt 
that some power beyond her own must bring help, 
if it came. For twenty-four hours Florence had 
neither slept nor drank. Once, when she had tried 
holding water in her mouth to assuage the thirst, 
she had swallowed a little, which caused intense 
distress, and she turned from it as from an enemy. 
Again the mother went to the next room, and 
again returned without disturbing the sleeper. 
She lay down softly by the restless child, and 
earnestly, yet silently, prayed that if possible 
God would relieve her. In a moment came the 
words, 

"Mother, I feel better; I would like a drink." 



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Too much for the mother's faith; she replied, 
" A drink ! You know how even a swallow dis- 
tresses you." 

" Please give me a drink, mother," was the 
reply." 

The glass of cold water was held to Florence's 
lips, and eagerly and without fear she drank freely 
of its contents, and lay back on the pillow with a 
look of perfect quiet in her face. Hardly daring 
to move, her mother repeated in a low voice two 
verses she had learned when a child younger than 
Florence, and which hundreds of times since she 
had repeated to herself when wakeful at night, to 
find them bring rest, if not sleep. 

" When courting slumber 
The hours I number, 
And sad cares cumber 

My weary mind, 
This thought shall cheer me, 
That Thou art near me, 
Whose ear to hear me 

Is still inclined. 

" My soul Thou keepest 
Who never sleepest ; 
Mid gloom the deepest 
There 's light above. 



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Thine eyes behold me, 

Thine arms enfold me, 

Thy word has told me 

That God is love." 

She looked at Florence as she finished the lines, 
and the restless eyes were closed. She was asleep. 
Not daring to move, she lay perfectly quiet, with 
her eyes fixed on a clock which stood on a bracket 
near by. Twenty minutes of sweet sleep, and 
Florence opened her eyes with a smile, and said, 
" I would like something to eat." 

No one but a mother who has watched with in- 
tense solicitude over a sick child can tell the 
music in those words. 

Quickly she prepared a delicate morsel, and 
was surprised to find it could be eaten with no 
more pain following than had been caused by the 
draught of water. The crisis was passed, and 
Florence was out of danger. 

" I was at my wit's end," said her mother to 
her the next morning, " while watching with you 
last night. And if ever I prayed in my life, I 
did when I came in the second time and lay down 
beside you." 

" I was praying, too, mamma," was the unex- 
pected and most welcome reply. 



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" And, mother," she added, " why did you never 
say those sweet verses to me before ? " 

" I do not know," was all the reply her mother 
could give; "but you -may take them now, and if 
they prove of as much comfort to you as they have 
long been to me, I shall be very glad; and neither 
you nor I," she added, " must ever forget the night 
when we both prayed." 

Charlotte Murray's lines so fully express our feel- 
ings that we quote them here : 

" He healed them all — the blind, the lame, the palsied, 

The sick in body and the weak in mind ; 
Whoever came, no matter how afflicted, 

Were sure a sovereign remedy to find. 
His word gave health, His touch restored the vigor 

To every weary, pain-exhausted frame; 
And all He asked before He gave the blessing, 

Was simple faith in Him from those who came. 

"And is our Lord the kind, the good, the tender, 

Less loving now than in those days of old ? 
Or is it that our faith is growing feeble, 

And Christian energy is waxing cold ? 
Why do we not, with equal expectation, 

Now bring our sick ones to the Lord in prayer, 
Right through the throng of unbelieving scruples, 

Up to Ilis very side and leave them there 1 



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" He never health refused in by-gone ages, 
Nor feared to take the ' chastisement ' away ; 

Then why not ask it now, instead of praying 
For patience to endure from day to day ? " 



Creston, III., February 10, 1880. 
Mrs. Edward Mix. 

Dear Friend: — Our prayers have been an- 
swered, and I am getting well, commenced to im- 
prove right away. My faith has been greatly 
strengthened, and my heart is full of praise to 
God. 

I thank you very much for your kindly interest, 
and shall always remember you and your labors in 
my prayers. 

Yours with deep gratitude, 

Carrie F. Cobb. 



Mrs. Newey having neuralgia on the heart was 
cured immediately by prayer and laying on of 
hands. 

WOLCOTTVILLE, CONN. 



Mr. Samuel Brown of New Haven received an 
injury while in the army, from a shell, and his 
left limb was affected. He used a crutch; he 



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also had asthma. He had once loved God, but at 
the time he came to be healed he was as the prodi- 
gal son. After talking with him awhile and tell- 
ing him what God required of him in order to be 
healed, he knelt down and as he attempted to pray 
burst into such a flood of tears, confessed his 
faults and promised to forsake' his evil ways. 
The Lord heard and answered prayer. I anointed 
with oil in the name of the Lord and laid my 
hands upon him. He said, " How strangely my 
limb feels." I told him in the name of the Lord to 
rise up and walk; he arose from the chair and 
without his crutch walked off as well as ever, and 
when he went away carried his crutch over his 
shoulder. 



A young lady named Adele Shattuck, living in 
Saratoga county, New York, has just been re- 
stored from a paralytic condition, by means of 
her own prayers. Four years ago, at the age of 
eighteen, from grief at the loss of her brother, she 
went into nervous convulsions, and became a hope- 
less paralytic. All the doctors said she would 
never recover, but she had faith that she should, 
and she rested in the efficacy of prayer to restore 



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herself. The other day she astonished her family 
by appearing down-stairs cured, as she said, by 
prayer. Gradually her strength returned, and the 
recovery of her voice followed. 



The Brookfield correspondent of the Danbvry 
News writes the following in regard to Mrs. Car- 
penter of that place: — " There has certainly been a 
marvelous change in her condition. Before Mrs. 
Mix went to see her she was in a very weak condi- 
tion, having become so reduced by severe attacks 
of hemorrhages of the lungs, that when moved 
from her bed to the chair, she could only sit up a 
few moments on account of weak lungs and great 
palpitation of the heart. The latter trouble was 
occasioned by the least exertion or excitement. 
For a long time her limbs had been cold and numb 
below the knees; it was utterly impossible for her 
to stand, although she had made many attempts 
to stand alone, and had exerted herself to the 
utmost to stand alone only a few hours before 
Mrs. Mix came. While Mrs. Mix was with her a 
great change came over her. 

"The blood began to circulate, the weakness in 
her lungs and heart was immediately relieved, and 



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within an hour she was up and dressed and walking 
about. Since then she has continued to improve, 
having no returns of hemorrhages. She can walk 
and ride, and attend to part of her household 
work. Possibly the many instances of God's 
power, so plainly evident to all but those who 
having eyes yet see not, may lead even this faith- 
less generation to acknowledge that ' All things 
are possible to him that belie veth.' " 



A LETTER FROM MRS. WILTON. 
Mrs. Mix came to see me on Monday, the 
twenty-eighth of April, 1879. Then I had been 
sick and lame for one year, one month and four 
days. In that time I have been a great sufferer, 
both nio4it and dav, suffering: from heart affection, 
which at times was so bad that I had awful spasms 
and was in constant pain every day, and I have n't 
been able to walk scarcely any in that time, and 
not a step for long months; have had to be lifted 
from my bed to my easy-chair and back all the time, 
and carried from one room to another; and when 
I sat up in my chair I had to keep my feet in 
another chair. I could not let them down on the 



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floor on account of the pain in my body and limbs, 
nor could I stand alone a moment. I have had 
several good physicians, but got no help. I was 
about to give up in despair, when I heard of the 
wonderful cures performed through Mrs. Mix. I 
sent for her to come and see me; when she came 
into the room she asked if I had faith to be 
healed. I told her I had perfect faith; she then 
anointed me and laid hands on me, all the while 
praying God to heal me. I prayed with her, end 
our prayers were answered, for in less than an 
hour after she began to labor with me I got up, 
dressed, and walked out into the other room as 
well as anybody, perfectly free from pain and all 
my lameness gone. Although I am very weak 
from being sick so long, yet I am gaining strength 
all the time; after she went away I walked about 
my room, and went out to tea with the rest, and 
the next morning got up, dressed, combed my 
hair and went out to breakfast. Something I 
have n't done before in over a year. I am still 
gaining strength fast and feel well. I would add 
that all sufferers who may see this may have faith 
in God. Send for Mrs. Mix and be cured. 

Mrs. G. A. AVilton. 



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Mrs. Lee suffered from great pain and burning 
in her back, and her side troubled her so she 
had not laid on that side for three years. She 
had caused a rupture by lifting; her lungs were 
weak, causing much distress for breath. She was 
under a physician's care all the time. She came 
the twenty-second of June to board with me two 
weeks. She arose Sabbath morning to dress, and 
afterwards told me she had to lie down three times 
while dressing. I called her down to prayers, not 
knowing then how badly she felt. I prayed for 
her, and as I prayed, I felt the power of God come 
upon me. 

I arose and laid my hands on her in the name 
of the Lord. The healing power was so strong 
upon her that she shook and trembled, and lost 
her strength. The tears were coursing very fast 
down her cheeks. I spoke to her, but she could 
not answer; as soon as strength came to her, 
she stood upon her feet and raised both arms, ex- 
claiming, " How strong I feel ! All pain and bad 
feeling is gone from my back, and my lungs feel 
strong." She went to her room and knelt in sol- 
emn prayer and praise to God. She said she felt 
the power go all through her lungs and down her 



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back; she soon got so she could go upstairs with- 
out the least exertion, and could lie on that side as 
well as ever, and without any of the pains re- 
turn in o\ 



IRISH WOMAN CURED OF DROPSY. 

July 23. 
We both prayed, and after I had prayed and 
laid hands on her, she felt the power of God, and 
exclaimed, " Glory be to God for such relief." 



MRS. BROWN'S LAMENESS AND OLD AGE. 

October 12. 
I labored with her in prayer and laying on of 
hands, and she went home feeling much better. 
She had n't been able to dress herself or comb her 
hair for several years, but the next morning she 
arose and dressed herself, and the next Lord's 
day gave in her testimony as being healed fully. 
God has promised to renew youth and strength if 
we call upon him for it. 



Mrs. Hart, Wolcottville, Conn., had a severe at- 
tack of bilious fever and headache, and was con- 
fined to her bed. I labored with her by prayer 



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and laying on of hands; she arose from her bed 
by faith, and walked around the room; soon she 
threw up a great quantity of bile. I went away 
and she was able to come to the piazza and was 
feeling quite bright. She was able to go about 
her work, and in two days did the washing. 
There is no God like our God. 

WOLCOTTVILLE, CONN. 



Frederick Hart, having neuralgia in the head and 
face, pain in his limbs, and a good deal of fever, 
was obliged to stay home from the shop all day. 

I prayed and laid hands on him, and he felt the 
power all through him. He began to perspire 
from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot ; 
he was better right away, and went to meeting that 
very evening. 

WOLCOTTVILLE, CONN. 



Mr. Smith's child swallowed a safety pin, and 
the mother requested me to pray for it; and in 
answer to prayer the pin remained in the child's 
stomach eleven days without injuring in the least; 
it then came up into his throat, unclasped, and a 
physician came and took it out. 

WOLCOTTVILLE, CONN. 



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Clinton, November 30, 1879. 

Dear Mrs. Mix: — We have been very remiss in 
writing you as we promised, concerning mother's 
health since you were here. We were away from 
home during the summer, and mother had so 
much writing to do in order to keep us all in- 
formed about herself, she did not get time to 
write you. 

Our hearts have been made very glad by your 
visit, and what God has done for us through you, 
and this Thanksgiving time has found real thanks- 
giving in our hearts toward God for His goodness. 
Mother has continued to gain in health and 
strength ever since you were here, and has im- 
proved in flesh and looks. 

She seems better than formerly when she used 
to call herself well. We do pray £hat she may 
continue well and strong. Mother's case is much 
talked of in Utica, and here many think her cure 
was from God. All join in kindest remembrances to 
you. May the Lord bless you abundantly in your 
work, is the prayer of your friend, 

E. M. South ant. 



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September 18, 1878. 

Mrs. Emily Harmant (liver complaint) had been 
Sick and employed a doctor ten weeks, but with 
all the medicine she had taken she grew worse; 
her side and bowels had been blistered with 
poultices and plasters, but all of no effect. She 
had heard of the workings of God's power through 
me, and I was sent for. I found her in bed suffer- 
ing very much with the pain in her side, and for 
some reason there was a large lump in it. I 
conversed with her a little on the subject of faith 
and prayer. I saw her faith was good and her 
trust in God. 

She believed He would deliver her from all 
sickness; we joined in prayer and God heard and 
answered; peace came to her; all pain was re- 
moved, and the lump in her side was all gone; her 
head ceased to ache, and vigor and strength came 
to her. She said she wanted to get up and be 
dressed. I called her daughter and we dressed 
her; she took hold of my hand and went down- 
stairs into the parlor, where there were a half 
dozen waiting to be labored with, or to see the re- 
sult of my labors with her. Some exclaimed, I 
told you she would come down, others said they 



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were perfectly astonished. The next day she was 
out riding, and was all right. God always deliv- 
ers those who trust in Him. 



" I will manifest myself unto him." John xiv. 21. 

For years I have been an invalid, suffering with 
a very obstinate form of malarial chills, which re- 
sulted in great disturbance of the nervous system, 
involving also the other organs. So great was 
my proclivity in that direction that the least ex- 
posure to damp or evening air, or any little over- 
exertion would throw me into chills of no ordinary 
type, subjecting me to intense suffering for days 
afterwards. 

In addition to all this, I was prostrated with 
pleuro-pneumonia on the 17th day of May, 1880. 
My physician, visiting me from two to four times 
a day, watched its progress with much anxiety. 
As I grew worse, doubts were entertained of my 
recovery, the acuteness of the disease involving 
other conditions than those which usually attend it. 

On Saturday morning, May 22d, as I lay in 
great suffering and helplessness, the beautiful text 
above quoted was given me. While my body was 
racked with intense pain, my heart breathed its 



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prayer that God would manifest Himself unto 
me; and all day between my paroxysms of suffer- 
ing, coughing, etc., my soul-cry was, " O Lord, 
manifest Thyself unto me." I could scarcely de- 
fine to my own mind how or in what way I wanted 
it, but my soul was on a stretch for a Divine 
manifestation. 

Thus the hours dragged their painful length 
till the shades of evening settled upon me; still, 
with bated breath I prayed for a manifestation of 
the Divine. My friend and companion, Mrs. B., 
was herself too sick to sit up with me during the 
night, so at a late hour, fixing my medicines and 
my drink beside my bed, she left me for a time. 

As soon as I was alone I again began my 
heart-prayer, " Lord, manifest Thyself unto 
me." Soon I seemed suspended in mid-air, going 
through a process of stripping, until I was divested 
of clogs and weights which had so trammeled me. 
I then exclaimed: " Saviour mine! make thorough 
work; strip me completely of everything that may 
hinder Thy will concerning me." Immediately, as 
if banished by an unseen hand, my doubts and 
fears (alas! how many had I struggled with all 
my life,) like a spectral band departed, and I 



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seemed a clean child before God, with every 
avenue of my soul open toward Him. 

I was then lifted up and placed on an immense 
rock, grand and beautiful, on which the Saviour 
stood. He smilingly said, " Now, my child, go 
to sleep;" whereupon I dropped into a sweet, re- 
freshing slumber. When I awoke I was in His 
Divine arms. Then I said, "0 Jesus! how I 
have needed thee. I have wanted thee in my 
business and in my cares, but thou didst seem so 
far away; and I sometimes thought thou hadst 
forgotten me." He sweetly replied, " My eye 
has been upon you; you are mine; you are sealed." 
I immediately experienced such a sense of purity 
as I had never known before; and as I felt the 
sealing power go through me, it seemed as if 
every fiber of my being was for God. 

He then passed His hand over my face, and a 
thrill like electricity went through me, and I 
exclaimed: 

" Why, J am healed ! " 

I then felt my flesh, and, instead of the parched, 
fevered skin I had during those days and nights of 
suffering, it was cool and soft as a healthy child's. 

He said, "Yes, you are healed; you are to 



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obey Me in all things; be careful, eat sparingly, 
and follow thou Me; " to all of which my grateful 
heart responded, " Yes, Lord." 

What oneness I felt with my Divine Master ! 
My life, my whole being, was swallowed up in 
Him like a little fish in the mighty ocean. I 
talked with Him face to face so sweetly; and 
among other things I said: " Precious Lord, wilt 
Thou please heal my dear friend, Mrs. B ? (for 
whose healing many prayers had been offered.) 
He lovingly answered, "I '11 see to that." I then 
asked Him to bless my physician who had been so 
faithful to me during my sickness. He smiled, 
reached out His hand to her, and in response 
thereto she stepped upon the rock, her face all 
aglow with heavenly light. I was led to pray for 
different persons, and they appeared one at a 
time as their names were called, some with pure 
spotless robes, radiant with Divine glory, while 
others, among whom were two of my own dear 
kindred, were struggling hard to climb upon the 
rock, but were too heavily weighted. Though the 
Saviour graciously extended His hand toward them 
they could not reach Him; for they were so far 
away, looking sorrowful and disappointed. 



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I then called for another whom I knew to make 
high professions; she appeared upon the outer 
edge of the rock, riding upon a little wooden 
hobby horse. There was much assurance in her 
face and manner, also much force of motion, but 
no progress. The Saviour looked benignly at her, 
but she was too far away. 

I then prayed for another whom I had heard 
profess much, but she was enveloped in a cloud 
of darkness, remote from the rest. The Lord 
looked compassionately toward her, and turning 
to me said, with tenderness: "Thou hast nothing 
to do with them." 

After about a score of persons had been called 
for and shown me, I asked once more for the 
healing of Mrs. B. and again He answered me, 
" I will take care of that." I questioned why 
she was not grouped with the other dear ones, 
with white robes and radiant faces. He pointed 
to a desert place apart from the rest, where she 
was walking alone, with a heavy cross strapped 
to her back. As I gazed in wonder, He smiled 
complacently upon her and said: " A man of 
sorrows and acquainted with grief." Though un- 
qualified by words, its sweet significance was 



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revealed to me. As I turned toward the little 
group, my eye rested upon a dear lady of supe- 
rior ability, and one upon whom the Divine signet 
had been set within the past year; she stood 
head and shoulders above the rest, clothed in 
white robes and with a halo about her; indeed, 
her whole being seemed a reflex of the Divine. 
I asked why she stood such a tower of Strength 
and Beauty; and without a word He pointed to 
the lonely pilgrim in the solitary place. I under- 
stood it, knowing the instrument used for thus 
advancing this young friend into God. 

I then saw the most beautiful groves of which 
the human mind can conceive. The trees were 
covered with rich dark foliage; and upon them 
hung the most luscious fruit. The singing of the 
birds, with harmony of melody and rhythm, was 
more heavenly than anything I had ever heard. 
I gazed in wonder. A breeze swept over me so 
grateful and live-giving that I exclaimed: " Xo 
wonder the inhabitants shall no more say I am 
sick! " And with the waves of fragrance came 
new accessions of strength until I was permeated 
through and through. 

Still nearer to us was a spread table; its cover- 



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ing of rare whiteness was a complete fabric of 
precious stones; and as it hung in ample folds to 
the rock, the picture was of transcendent beauty. 
The dishes were regal and rare; and all reflected 
the most delicate tints, softened by the hues of 
the rising day; for the whole scene was one of 
morning twilight. 

I looked far in the distance, and saw the world 
gradually receding, until it became a mere speck, 
just passing from sight. Then the rock took on 
extent until it filled all immensity of space, and 
the glory of the Lord overshadowed the whole. 

Then the Saviour said, " Now, my child, go to 
sleep." Sweetly and quietly as a trusting child 
in its mother's arms I slept, and awoke in the 
morning refreshed and well! I arose in the con- 
sciousness of physical and spiritual anointing. 
With perfect ease I raised both arms to my head 
to comb my hair, whereas previously to move 
them seemed like a knife piercing me. I dressed 
and went below stairs to the surprise of the family. 

I did not recover my wonted strength and flesh 

at once; but gradually and steadily I seem to 

have taken on the vigor of years gone by, and as 

far as I know I am perfectly well and very strong, 

7 



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I can go out in the evening, and am subject to 
various atmospheric changes, but no indications of 
chills. 

What a change! After nearly ten years of de- 
privation, I can go out day or evening with no 
more discomfort than in the years before I con- 
tracted the malaria. The Divine Presence which 
entered my soul on that eventful night has become 
an indwelling Presence. My life seems insepa- 
rable from Him. However distracting outside ele- 
ments, I live, move, and have my being in God in 
a sense beyond anything I ever conceived before, 

Mrs. E. H. Scott, 
Ocean Grove, N. J. 



MADE WHOLE BY FAITH. 

Wallingford, Conn., August 22, 1880. 
Mrs. Edward Mix: — I want to glorify God by 
telling to the world what the Lord has done for 
my wife in answer to the prayer of faith. My 
wife was taken sick February 1, 1879, and has 
been under the doctor's care since, up to May 10, 
1880. She was treated for different diseases, but 
.received no benefit, as the difficulty proved to ba 



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an internal one; the hemorrhage was very bad. 
At last Dr. Meganhey, who had spent four years 
in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, 
made an examination, and found it to be a cancer, 
and making rapid progress; that it was malignant, 
and could not be cured. Then Dr. Sanford of 
New Haven was called, and after a thorough ex- 
amination, told me the same; that it had taken a 
malignant form, but that she might be made 
comparatively comfortable, though suffering many 
sleepless nights, and the only way of relief would 
be to take morphine; sometimes the pains would 
last five hours in spite of all the morphine we 
could give her, and finally we were obliged to 
keep her under the influence of it continually. 
She was growing very weak, and to all appear- 
ances could live but a short time. Some of the 
neighbors thought she could not live more than 
three days. May 2d, Mrs. Crumb came in and 
prayed with her; she told us of Mrs. Edward Mix 
and her great faith in the promises of God to heal 
the sick. My wife asked a lady friend to write to 
her, for she herself was very weak; could not sit 
up more than five minutes at a time, had no 
appetite, had lost forty-five pounds of flesh, was 



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reduced to a mere skeleton. Mrs. Mix came May 
10th and prayed with her, anointing her with oil 
in the name of the Lord. She was able to get up 
and dress and comb her hair, and assist about get- 
ting dinner, sit down and eat dinner with us, sit 
up all day, and in the evening rode one mile to 
prayer-meeting and testified for the Lord of what 
He had done for her, then rode back without any 
inconvenience except feeling a little tired. The 
next day came the trial of faith for the morphine; 
the temptation was terrible; it lasted a number of 
days, but the Lord gave her overcoming grace; 
she had laid aside all medicines and remedies, and 
was trusting fully in God; had taken Him at His 
word, believing He would do as He had promised, 
and the Lord gave her the victory over the tempta- 
tion. The cancer is healed; she feels no pain 
from it. It is now thirteen weeks since Mrs. Mix 
first saw her; she sleeps well every night, has 
a good appetite, and praises God continually for 
what He has done for her. After the temptation 
of the morphine had ceased, it came in another 
form; indigestion. We took it to the Lord in 
prayer and He removed it. My wife could take 
lono- walks about the town, did her housework 



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with a little of my assistance. She was then taken 
with fever and ague; we sent for Mrs. Mix; she 
could not come, but Mr. Mix came and prayed 
with her. The Lord heard and answered, rebuk- 
ing the fever. Then she had a trial of a severe 
cough; we asked the Lord to remove that, and it 
was done. After a time she was taken with in- 
flammatory rheumatism, which caused her limbs to 
swell very badly. She could not bear the least 
weight upon her feet without causing severe pain. 
I sent for Mrs. Mix; she came and prayed with her; 
the swelling of her feet and limbs was so much 
reduced that she could put on her stockings and 
shoes and walk about twenty feet to her chair; it 
was all done through faith and prayer. She is 
improving every day; she sleeps well and has a 
good appetite; praise the Lord for his wonderful 
works to the children of men. We read, Matt. 
xxi. 22, " All things whatsoever ye shall ask in 
prayer, believing, ye shall receive;" Mark xi. 24, 
" What things soever ye desire when ye pray, be- 
lieve that ye receive them and ye shall have them; " 
John xv. 7, "If ye abide in me and my words 
abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall 
be done unto you;" John xiv. 13, "And whatso- 



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ever ye shall ask in my name that will I do that 
the father may be glorified in the son; " John xvi. 
23, James v. 14, 15. Paul exhorts us to contend 
earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. 
Elijah's faith brought the blessing, although the 
probabilities were very small. That is the kind of 
faith we need to prevail with God. Give us a 
perfect faith ; yes, Lord, increase our faith. Abra- 
ham believed, and it was imputed to him for right- 
eousness. We are calling upon our souls and all 
that is within us to praise the Lord, and we would 
not forget all his benefits. 

Samuel M. Scrantox. 

Mrs. Scranton has since died, but not with 
cancer. 



